On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Mark M. wrote:
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, jonathon wrote:
On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Mark Rosen wrote:
I have written an encryption program called Very Good Privacy Trademark violation here. Probably not a good thing. Nope. "Pretty Good" is trademarked, but "Very Good" isn't.
Very Good Privacy is violating the trademark of Pretty Good Privacy. At least this is a simple, straightforward easy to see and easier to sue on violation than most other trademark violation cases are.
I'm not sure how an encryption product that uses encryption algorithms weaker than Pretty Good Privacy can be described Both programs use IDEA. How is this weaker?
IDEA & RC4 were the only algorithms listed that AC2 doesn't list as having a security flaw. And that isn't even true, if one considers "weak keys" to be a security flaw, for IDEA. Some of the others are breakable on the fly, by a human.
RC4 has stood up to cryptanalysis. It's secure as long as the same key isn't used twice.
"Not used twice" is the operative phrase. xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com SpamByte: The amount of spam Sanford Wallace sends to AOL in one 24 hour period. Roughly 1 000 Terabytes sent every 24 hours. T3 Connection: The connection that AOL needs to deal with the spam Sanford Wallaces send to them in one day, so that legitimate users can contact people at AOL.