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- From: mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu (Marc VanHeyningen)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: RSA
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.134352.24917@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:43:41 GMT
- References: <qZ1XwB1w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept, Indiana University
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- Thus said sspy@west.darkside.com (mshannon):
- >I have been looking for a program that uses the RSA for the actual
- >message encryption, not just for the DES or IDEA key. I found an old copy
- >of a program called Iris, produced in England by a Mr. Peter Moreton at
- >Digital Crypto. Apparently this Iris does just that, but it's hard to
- >tell from the cryptic help file. Does anyone know of this program? It
- >also has the DES and several other ciphers, but they are all in one big
- >.exe file. Thanx in advance...
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- If you don't mind me asking, why would using just RSA without a
- symmetric encryption method be an advantage?
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- The dead fish goes with the flow.
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