Re: Announcement: Very Good Privacy

[Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au>]

Dear Sir,

>	I'm not sure how an encryption product that uses encryption
>	algorithms weaker than Pretty Good Privacy can be described
>	as being better than PGP.  
>
>	Especially when all the algorithms listed have known problems
>	of one kind, or another.   << And yes, I know that the known
>	problems -- in some instances --- are entirely theoretical in
>	nature.  >>

What puzzles me is that he included two cyphers that are _extremely_ easy to
break, the vignere cypher and the ascii cypher. Why include these? And what
is his new permutation of RC4 and DES?

Yours Sincerely,

Benjamin Grosman