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Re: PGP encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (staym@accessdata.com)
Mon Jul 19 16:03:35 1999
From: staym@accessdata.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:43:23 -0600
To: Hans Viens <vieh01@gel.usherb.ca>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
Hans wrote:
>When implementing PGP base encryption, is this implementation MUST use
>symetrically Algorithms ?? Is it possible to use only the >public/private key ?
There currently isn't a way to do it under the OpenPGP Draft. Why would
you want to? Symmetric algorithms are generally one or two orders of
magnitude faster, and as far as we can tell, every bit as secure.
--
Mike Stay
Cryptographer / Programmer
AccessData Corp.
mailto:staym@accessdata.com
