[13962] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why PGP 2.5 sucks...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray)
Fri May 20 06:13:12 1994
From: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 6:03:55 WET DST
In-Reply-To: <199405200959.FAA25222@umbc8.umbc.edu>; from "Ray Cromwell" at May 20, 94 5:58 am
Ray Cromwell writes:
> 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...
Seems like it should be a simple task to code up a utility to convert
old format keys to new ones.
-Ray
