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Alan Westrope
adwestro at ouray.Denver.Colorado.EDU
Mon Jan 31 17:55:26 PST 1994
> A subset implementation of the proposed Privacy
> Enhanced Mail standard. Not as secure as PGP or
> Viacrypt PGP, but it is both free and free of patent
> infringements in the USA.
>
> I just recently got MacRipem and find it much easier to use than PGP,
> and was wondering why I should use PGP over Ripem. The above seems to
> indicate that Ripem isn't as secure. Why is this?
Bruce Schneier's (excellent!) book states that the only info available to
someone cryptanalyzing a pgp-encrypted file is the six-digit key ID. PEM
"leaves quite a bit of information about the sender, recipient, and message
in the unencrypted header." (p. 436)
Alan Westrope <awestrop at nyx10.cs.du.edu>
KeyID: 359639 <adwestro at ouray.denver.colorado.edu>
PGP fingerprint: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23
finger for public key
--
"Ah, ah...see them there! Like Gorgons, with gray cloaks,
and snakes coiled swarming round their bodies! Let me go!"
-- Aeschylus, _The Choephori_ (4larry...:-)
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