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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!acorn!eoe!ahaley
- From: ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: mc100.zip (mcrypt)
- Message-ID: <1432@eouk1.eoe.co.uk>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 17:09:48 GMT
- References: <1992Oct13.864.271@ALMAC>
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- keith.willis@almac.co.uk wrote:
- :
- :
- : 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.
- :
- : 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.
-
- That's what you would expect if they are using a small encryption
- exponent (such as 3 or 65537.) This is common practice. Decryption
- and authentication require a full length modular exponentiation.
-
- Andrew.
-