[62] in Cypherpunks
Re: Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Apr 30 06:40:30 1993
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1993 14:33:21 GMT."
Reply-To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 13:39:49 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Sy Verpunc says:
> : 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?
Why don't you ask him? He's jim@rsa.com. I'd be polite.
.pm