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- From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
- Subject: Comm Week article omits PGP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.013640.6749@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:36:40 GMT
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- An article in the December 14, 1992 Communications Week describes
- an encryption arrangement said to be used by "many users", namely
- using a public-key method to encrypt a DES key which is then used
- to encrypt the message.
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- The article goes on at length but somehow manages to miss PGP, which
- I suspect is the most widely used software that does this.
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- The article mentions RSA, of course, and quotes Prof. Hellman.
-
- The article then mentions that RSA's encryption is used in Novell
- Netware Release 4, in Lotus Notes, and in Microsoft Windows for
- Workgroups.
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- Carl Oppedahl AA2KW (intellectual property lawyer)
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