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On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
Is S/MIME secure than PGP ?
Its hard to tell. However PGP has a number of advangers over S/MIME, it is better supported by cilents, PGP signtures are smaller then S/MIME sigs. In addtion S/MIME sigs normaly have encoded in them a lot of infomation about the user makeing it very difficalt to use via an anon remailer. Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. Save the ABC Is $0.08 per day too much to pay? ex-net.scum and proud I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yucky' a convincing argument
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <19971103044957.24885.qmail@hotmail.com>, on 11/02/97 at 08:49 PM, "Nobuki Nakatuji" <bd1011@hotmail.com> said:
Is S/MIME secure than PGP ?
No it is not! S/MIME specs require support for weak RC2/40 encryption. This is not secure!!! Add to this the fact that to date no S/MIME vendor has ever released their crypto source code. I for one would not trust Net$cape or Micro$oft to secure an outhouse let alone my communications. They have shown their incompentence in this area time and time again. Weak Crypto = No Security No Source = No Security - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNF3c7I9Co1n+aLhhAQGtrQP/UoYnM5FpOfu2ytg5K3jGpz2i5t7x/K1+ MGSvPIMaPkrwkfRjFz3rTg8fRrUy0d4eG1s41DhNJIJ4EJZU3r2pHGTPJkjtr4Hr 7io3DDVjYyr5h+ssHED2xHMLySi2h5ZSQuraZm5/qWeDDjCxgWPxzEaD53ui+SSz PrcexIJWb/E= =fK4Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 08:49 PM 11/2/97 PST, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
Is S/MIME secure than PGP ?
No. S/MIME uses 40 bit keys, which are trivially breakable by paralell brute-force key search attacks. Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Stupidity is the one arena of of human achievement where most people fulfill their potential." -- Jonathan Wienke RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
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? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} -
Jonathan Wienke -
Nobuki Nakatuji -
William H. Geiger III