[82324] in Cypherpunks
Re: New PGP signatures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Mon Jun 23 14:56:53 1997
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:07:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com>
Cc: cypherpunks mailing list <cypherpunks@algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970623133802.009b2800@gateway.grumman.com>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Osborne wrote:
> bennett_t1@popmail.firn.edu wrote:
> >some asshole forgot to make PGP 5.0 freeware RSA key-generating
>
> Okay, silly question here, but what's to stop someone from adding that
> capability once the source is available? (And if they knew they were going
> to publish the source, why not just add the capability in the first place?)
Because there is no reason for PGP to enourage people to generate new
RSA/MD5 keys when MD5 is about to go downhill.
The source is being scanned as we speak, UNIX versions will obviously be
forthcoming soon, if you want to generate RSA keys, use PGP 2.6.2.
Get a clue,
--Lucky
