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- From: weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: RIPEM vs. PGP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.115438@kuttner.sfc.sony.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:54:38 GMT
- References: <hmiller.724397340@lucpul.it.luc.edu> <1992Dec15.110814.27222@netcom.com> <0#=rh9n@dixie.com> <1992Dec16.173333.12868@netcom.com>
- Sender: weaver@kuttner (Eric Weaver)
- Organization: SONY Advanced Video Technology Center San Jose, CA USA
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- I wish to issue a challenge to hackers on both sides of the red white & blue
- curtain:
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- WHEREAS, we'uns can apparently only use RIPEM or such properly licensed RSA
- software *legally*, AND
-
- ... the technical specs of a RIPEM compatible system are well-enough
- known "out there" (outside the US) or in any event exportable, which the
- actual software is not), AND
-
- ... PGP has the ingredients for the RSA portion, and doubtless somewhere
- there is a DES implementation already outside US Export Restrictions,
-
- How about someone "out there" making a RIPEM-compatible system rather in
- the spirit of PGP, so we can get about exchanging our private mail, rather
- than grousing about the legality of PGP? I shall be happy to send U.S. $20
- in support of this effort, and I encourage Messrs. Sternlight, Ellison, Boucher,
- and all others in this brouhaha to do the same once a volunteer comes forth.
-
- It's one thing to burn down the outhouse, and another to install plumbing...
-
- --
- Eric Weaver Sony AVTC 677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35 SJ CA 95134 408 944-4904
- & Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7 Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA 94022
- --
- Eric Weaver Sony AVTC 677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35 SJ CA 95134 408 944-4904
- & Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7 Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA 94022
-