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Re: Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sy Verpunc)
Thu Apr 29 11:14:30 1993

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 14:33:21 GMT
From: Sy Verpunc <svp@gtoal.com>
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com
To: Cypherpunks@toad.com

: At risk of getting the goats of some friends of mine who read the list, I'm
: tending to agree with Tim's ideas here.  Brief conversation with Jim Bidzos
: at the cypunx mtg indicated that he is very much up for something along the
: lines of a personal encryption product that would meet our needs.  From a

All he has to do is let us pay a licence fee for pgp.  What's the advantage
to him in asking for a different piece of code that uses RSAREF and DES
instead of Phil's code and IDEA?  I can't see it, except that using DES
blows away the security of the program...

No, I think this suggestion should be put down now, or we'll splinter and
give them exactly the divide-and-conquer opening they're looking for.

G

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