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Re: Announcement: Very Good Privacy
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To: [email protected]
Date: Sun Dec 01 23:30:00 1996
> 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?
>
Concur. Also, let's see: only available for Win95/NT, no sources
available, and cyphers that are known to be weak - and that can
be used without any warnings whatsoever - anyone else watching
their Snake-Oil-O-Meter get pegged?
Give us some source code, port it to XWindows, and then maybe
we'll talk.
dave
- ----- David E. Smith, P O Box 324, Cape Girardeau MO USA 63702
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