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RE: palm crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Mon Aug 2 20:12:47 1999
From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>, <dbs@philodox.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:03:28 +0800
What's the point of using publick key technologies like ECC to protect
private documents? As key management is a non-issue, something based on,
say, 3DES or IDEA (like "Secret!", http://linkesoft.com/english/secret/)
would suffice...
Enzo
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>Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 19:31:44 -0400
>From: <Somebody>
>To: rah@shipwright.com
>Subject: palm crypto
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>http://www.certicom.com/software/palmmemo.htm
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><Somebody's .sig>
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