17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 05:57 AM 2/22/97 -0800, Toto wrote:
Is the strength, or lack thereof, of conventional PGP encryption proportional to the length of the conventional password? ... Are you saying that the strength of encryption provided by PGP is dependent upon the password one uses?
PGP _conventional_ encryption - the straight IDEA stuff, not the public-key stuff. pgp -c just uses a hash of a passphrase as its encryption key, rather than generating a high-quality 128-bit key and encrypting it with a public key. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)