[13713] in Cypherpunks
Re: How good is MIT-PGP 2.5?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun May 15 21:04:32 1994
From: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
To: hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu (Robert A. Hayden)
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 21:02:05 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9405151936.A7432-0100000@krypton.mankato.msus.edu> from "Robert A. Hayden" at May 15, 94 07:18:41 pm
>
> When 2.5 was first announced a few weeks ago (with the non infamous
> keyserver announcement), there was some concerns expressed over the
> political manipulations of the new program and thus, the overall security
> of the code. To this date I haven't seen any additional commentary on
> that subject, and I figure that before I recommend locally changing to
> 2.5, I'd like to find out what exactly was changed from the standpoint of
> the algoritms and the overall safety of them.
>
> No flame please, but I am not a math-oriented person, so please keep it
> in pseudo-english :-)
>
I can't speak to the issue of the code itself, per se, but it should be
beared in mind that it is still in Beta, right?
- paul
