[13959] in Cypherpunks
Why PGP 2.5 sucks...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ER CRAMER)
Fri May 20 04:31:17 1994
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 10:19:29 -36803936 (GMT+0100)
From: ER CRAMER <crame001@hio.tem.nhl.nl>
To: cypher <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Reply-To: crame001@hio.tem.nhl.nl
X-Envelope-To: cypherpunks@toad.COM
PGP 2.5 really sucks...
Why?
- You can't use your old secret key. So you have to build a new one.
Why? I don't know. But PGP 2.5 don't recognize your pass phrase anymore.
Maybe that new RSA algoritme is easier to crack. So they force everybody
to create a new key...
- A new RSA algorithm??? What's wrong with the old one???
- Why not bigger keys than 1024 bits???
- Why can't PGP 2.3a read PGP 2.6 messages anymore after 1 september 1994?
The only good thing about 2.5 is that it's legal in de USA and Canada? But
why doesn't someone gets a license for PGP 2.3a so that's a legal version
too! (or is that inpossible???)
... If you outlaw Privacy, only the Outlaws will have Privacy!
Eelco Cramer <crame001@hio.tem.nhl.nl> ------
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