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Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Dec 2 12:34:15 2000
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:52:47 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> 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.
Although it is broken the strategy I use is to use a 2.x generated key
with 5/6.x PGP versions. This seems to work pretty smoothly.
Cheers,
Ben.
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