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Re: palm crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Markus Friedl)
Tue Aug 3 16:08:57 1999
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:29:09 +0200
From: Markus Friedl <Markus.Friedl@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: Enzo Michelangeli <em@who.net>,
"Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, dbs@philodox.com
In-Reply-To: <001201bedc8b$3d5fb580$e3cf54ca@asiainter.net>; from Enzo Michelangeli on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:03:28AM +0800
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:03:28AM +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> 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...
public key technologie allows encryption of text w/o passphrase.
only decrypt needs passphrase.
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:24:32AM -0700, Jay D. Dyson wrote:
> > http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.ZIP
> > http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.SIT.BIN
> > >http://www.certicom.com/software/palmmemo.htm
>
> I've been trying to access these files, but I'm consistently hit
> up for a login/pass. The standard cypherpunks routine doesn't work, and
> I'd like to check this data out. Help?
try:
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/security/replay-mirror/crypto/PalmPilot/SecureMemo11.ZIP
-markus
