[47386] in Cypherpunks
Re: pgp broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (greg pitz)
Wed Jan 17 11:02:39 1996
From: "greg pitz" <pitz@onetouch.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:42:43 -8
Reply-To: pitz@onetouch.com
On 16 Jan 96 at 19:16, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Also, it could be that a small PGP key has been broken. A 384-bit
> PGP key has already been broken by a factoring attack. That is
> neither surprising nor alarming to say the least. Without more
> information it really is impossible to analyze what happened.
I focused my interrogation in this direction, because, as many of you
have pointed out, it is VERY doubtful that PGP itself was "broken".
To give further perspective, he kept claiming that a "triple DES with
RS4 overlay" was the most secure method of encryption.
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