Is it true that PGP 5.X is not secure?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There are still rumors about that... ChromeDemon - -- "One dead is a tragedy, thousand deads are a statistic." Karl Marx e-mail: chromedemon@netcologne.de http://chromedemon.home.pages.de http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-weitzela2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.5.5 iQA/AwUBNevU0XnCsKPabtOfEQILcACfZ097WlD1pyA+2c7qv5RcyuYQJaEAoOmf mvg3B9F9NNv7qrHljjgC1T+B =J/8j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Lars Weitze wrote:
There are still rumors about that...
My humble knowledge does not permit my answering your question. However, I suppose your question is problematical. It is difficult to define security, or more precisely a scientifcally rigorous measure of security. I don't think that it is sensible to talk about absolute security without reference to a context (environment). In my view there is no 'perfect' encryption system in the practical world. If by 'not secure' you meant something that malicious persons have secretely manipulated to cause you damage, then I also don't know but I guess that to be highly unlikely, given the good historical record of PGP. M. K. Shen
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There are still rumors about that... ChromeDemon - -- "One dead is a tragedy, thousand deads are a statistic." Karl Marx
e-mail: chromedemon@netcologne.de http://chromedemon.home.pages.de http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-weitzela2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.5.5
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Why pay attention to ill-supported rumors? The source code is publicly available at www.pgpi.com. If there is a security issue then it can be critiqued with reference to the places in the source code that are the cause of the problem. If someone has done this, I haven't been paying close enough attention and I apologize for ranting. If not, then I would dismiss such claims as almost certainly baseless. Steve Bryan Vendorsystems International email: sbryan@vendorsystems.com icq: 5263678 pgp fingerprint: D758 183C 8B79 B28E 6D4C 2653 E476 82E6 DA7C 9AC5
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Lars Weitze
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Mok-Kong Shen
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Steve Bryan