A fatal flaw in PGP 6.0
This was posted anonymously to alt.security.pgp last night
Subject: PGP 6.0 alpha3 Date: 3 Feb 1998 00:15:56 +0100
Anyone else having problems with the alpha of PGP 6.0? When I try to encrypt e-mail I get an error:
FATAL ERROR
Unable to find key "ghost@nsa.gov" Please obtain a new key from Network associates.
Other than that it's pretty slick! I'm not sure I'd have the default cypher as ROT-13 though! I changed mine to RC-2 255-bit.
Anyone else?
Anyone like to confirm this?
* Anonymous wrote:
FATAL ERROR
Unable to find key "ghost@nsa.gov" Please obtain a new key from Network associates.
Anyone like to confirm this?
No the key requested is 'snoop@microsoft.com'. But the ROT13 encoding is true even for PGP5. If you move or rename the randseed.bin to an other location (i.E. to install pgp2.6.3(i)n and pgp5 simultanusly) the file will be modified, but all encrypted messages have the same session key. On the other hand pgp5 does not confirm the OpenPGP draft. A converter can be found at ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/pub/mitarb/lutz/crypt/software/pgp/OpenPGP/
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