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- From: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Zimmermann's responses to Sidelnikov's PGP critique
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.193520.15261@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- X-Quoted: 33%
- Organization: Computer Science Dept, Indiana University
- References: <1993Jan8.173701.8858@ncar.ucar.edu> <1993Jan9.172046.17709@colnet.cmhnet.org> <1993Jan10.000015.20757@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:35:16 -0500
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- Thus said strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight):
- >I notice that one RIPEM public key in the public server file has its
- >first 34 characters identical to my ripem public key. Perhaps this is
- >related. It seems an unlikely coincidence, given that the two keys
- >were generated by different individuals, apparently on different
- >computers, and very likely at different clock times.
-
- From the RIPEM distribution "todo" file:
-
- #=== Documentation ===
- #
- #-- Explain that all keys start with a PKCS identifier, so people won't
- #think RIPEM has a bug that makes all keys similar.
-
- This probably explains much, if not all, of the similarity.
- --
- Marc VanHeyningen mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu MIME & RIPEM accepted
- Kirk: I won't hurt you.
- Alien: You hit me!
- Kirk: Well, I won't hit you again.
-