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- From: silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
- Subject: Re: mc100.zip (mcrypt)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct15.002047.8852@news.miami.edu>
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- References: <1992Oct13.864.271@ALMAC>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 00:20:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct13.864.271@ALMAC>, keith.willis@almac.co.uk writes:
- >
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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...
- >
- >
- >---
- > ~ PQ 2.15 194 ~ Email: keith.willis@almac.co.uk
- >--
- >ALMAC BBS Ltd. 0324-665371
- >Dos based USENET access, call for details!
- Could you e-mail this to me please. I guess it would be uuencoded. So send
- away. Thanks.
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- Manolo
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