[13987] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why PGP 2.5 sucks...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri May 20 14:59:16 1994
To: crame001@hio.tem.nhl.nl
Cc: cypher <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 20 May 94 10:19:29 -0500.
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Date: Fri, 20 May 94 14:52:03 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
- 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...
Sure you can. If you can't, then this is a bug and should be
reported. (There is a known bug in the idea code that causes it to
lose on some platforms because memcpy does not deal with copying over
overlapping bodies of memory).
This bug has been fixed for 2.6!
- A new RSA algorithm??? What's wrong with the old one???
NOT! It's the same RSA algorithm, just a different RSA engine.
I hope this helps
-derek
