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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Rewriting PGP w/RSA toolkit?
- Message-ID: <8473@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 02:28:08 GMT
- References: <4336@novavax.UUCP> <1992Dec27.180042.7620@netcom.com> <1992Dec29.011416.21070@wariat.org>
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- In article <1992Dec29.011416.21070@wariat.org> catfood@wariat.org (Mark W. Schumann) writes:
- > This is what I don't get. What is the problem with just using RSA's
- > toolkit if you want public-key encryption? Why don't the developers of
- > PGP rewrite using this toolkit and go "legit"? I suppose I understand
- > the anarchic aspect of it, but if it is really true that RSA will let
- > you use their algorithm legally I don't see where the excitement is.
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- For one thing the developers of PGP have no (legitimate) access to the RSA
- toolkit. It can not be exported.
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