17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 1:53 PM -0500 on 12/4/98, Lee Davis wrote:
It is my understanding that the PGP algorithm is primarily intended as a block cypher.
PGP is not a cipher. PGP is an application with a bunch of ciphers in it, most of the block ones. PGPfone is not a cipher either, it's an applicatoin with a bunch of ciphers in it, most of them stream ones... Cheers, Robert Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'