17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On another subject, does RIPEM interoperate with PGP or other public key software? I have version 1.0.5 for DOS. Thanks for any replies. ponder@freenet.scri.fsu.edu
RIPEM does not interoperate with PGP, but it may interoperate with other programs, like TIS/PEM, which attempt to implement the RFC 1421 message-format spec. It turns out that the signature algorithms are similar, so it may be possible in a future version of PGP (3.0?) to get the signatures to be equivalent, so you could, theoretically, convert a signed PGP document into a signed RIPEM document (and vice-versa). Since RIPEM uses DES (or triple-DES), and PGP uses IDEA, encrypted documents are not cryptographically equivalent. Hope this helps.. -derek