-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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.
I'm not sure how an encryption product that uses encryption algorithms weaker than Pretty Good Privacy can be described as being better than PGP.
Both programs use IDEA. How is this weaker?
Especially when all the algorithms listed have known problems of one kind, or another. << And yes, I know that the known problems -- in some instances --- are entirely theoretical in nature. >>
RC4 has stood up to cryptanalysis. It's secure as long as the same key isn't used twice. Mark - -- finger -l for PGP key PGP encrypted mail prefered. 0xf9b22ba5 now revoked -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMqB58CzIPc7jvyFpAQGEgwf/VZ8gf+W84DV0cSCSnUNgKEqF/G2fKX4C bJAkY1FSz3edH4Y+KyWkVIVkpLRmBTSNTV45secSeyVGdvnjAX4zcnUld6hOIGSc bqE6hge9CQpWxsojckulwNTPphL4ZRLLA4UJViObOYZs8jJi6b4aZ8FPHfQwCdBh H64rGSGsEFj3WuDoH4nVgnNzwxXxLLllTAOOic8HFqRn2BeqxGRlkvGTraxE+on/ pKQ55CUQNBUu7L05lGp4njc1qZRpe9EeCLChRCEP6FVmy9iBtIRFH+lzRquDR+A4 lARm8zR1QKwDcCSzz8OPN52Lp/rICmcHWR7Lfhw/Vy8D6NxqG1lmuA== =CPKh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----