On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Osborne wrote:
bennett_t1@popmail.firn.edu wrote:
some asshole forgot to make PGP 5.0 freeware RSA key-generating
Okay, silly question here, but what's to stop someone from adding that capability once the source is available? (And if they knew they were going to publish the source, why not just add the capability in the first place?)
Because there is no reason for PGP to enourage people to generate new RSA/MD5 keys when MD5 is about to go downhill.
They could have supported RSA/SHA if they wanted to. They also put 3DES and IDEA support as options in the manual (but not in the freeware or tryit versions that I can see). I hope the international generic version - after it is scanned and modified - has many useful "upward compatible" options which will refuse to interoperate with the commercial windows/mac version. And then someone can write an interoperability spec and the next version of everything will talk to everything else.