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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ALMAC!keith.willis
- From: keith.willis@almac.co.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: mc100.zip (mcrypt)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.864.271@ALMAC>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 21:20:25 GMT
- Distribution: sci
- Organization: ALMAC BBS Ltd
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- I have come across an implementation of RSA distributed by a
- company in Wales, UK, which claims to perform RSA encryption
- on the entire file, rather than just on a session key for a
- conventional algorithm. The program may be common knowledge,
- but it is the first time I have come across it. It is called
- MCRYPT, and is distributed by a company called Digital
- Crypto as shareware.
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- What puzzles me is that encryption is very fast - less than 2
- minutes for a 40k text file using a 250 digit key - but
- decryption is _glacial_ - over 3 hours for the same file on
- the same PC.
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- If anyone is interested in looking at this, you may find it
- on a BBS near you - if not drop me a note and I'll email it
- to you. I believe I can email it to addresses in the States,
- but once there, it may not be exported again...
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