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Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Wed Nov 29 00:44:04 2000
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From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>, <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:11:44 +0800
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Fixing incompatibility of OpenSource OpenPGP implementations with PGP 2.x is
difficult due to the royalties demanded by IDEA's patent holders (at least,
for non-personal use).
Efficient key distribution (or lack thereof) is a serious problem, but most
people don't try to use it anyway, preferring peer-to-peer manual exchanges
followed by out-of-band authentication of the fingerprint...
Enzo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:22 AM
Subject: Is PGP broken?
> Is it just me, or is PGP broken? I don't mean any particular version
> of PGP -- I mean the fact that there are multiple versions of PGP
> which generate incompatible cryptography. Half the time when someone
> sends me a PGP-encrypted message, I can't decrypt it. Presuming that
> I'm right, is anyone attempting to fix PGP?
>
> Not to mention anything about PGP keyservers, or the utter and
> complete absence of anybody doing point-source PGP signing.
>
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