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Re: Snake_Oil_punks was Re: SafE Mail Corporation





On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:

> > Talked with Randy of Safe Mail Corporation on the phone.  
> >         PGP has the secret key in its public key!
> 
> Huh?  Can you explain what this means?  I'd sure like to know.

It's obvious, silly. The public key exponent has the private key exponent
embedded in it,  information theory and modular arithmetic be damned :)

Simon