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- From: ridgwad@PEAK.ORG (Dean Ridgway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Key File Programming
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 13:10:44 -0800
- Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- References: <4f9kvp$m70@rock101.genie.net> <588.6611T1313T530@datashopper.dk> <4fbg4q$ndr@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1161.6618T1423T2585@wvlink.mpl.com>
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- In article <1161.6618T1423T2585@wvlink.mpl.com>,
- Gene Heskett <gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com> wrote:
-
- >I think a small correction is in order here. Does the PGP code not use the
- >idea encryption? That was busted, prolly a year back, but if everyone who
- >worked on the crack got a share of that prize money, each might have been
-
- Your getting your crypto routines confused here. PGP uses a hybrid
- system of both RSA and IDEA. *ONE* RSA key was cracked (RSA129) which
- was set forth in a challenge printed in a Scientific American article
- when the RSA algorithym was first published in the '70s. IDEA had no
- part in that crack and is still, AFAIK, reasonably secure.
-
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