Why PGP 2.5 sucks...
Ray
rjc at gnu.ai.mit.edu
Fri May 20 03:04:14 PDT 1994
Ray Cromwell writes:
> PGP 2.5 really sucks...
>
> Why?
> - You can't use your old secret key. So you have to build a new one.
> Why? I don't know. But PGP 2.5 don't recognize your pass phrase anymore.
> Maybe that new RSA algoritme is easier to crack. So they force everybody
> to create a new key...
Seems like it should be a simple task to code up a utility to convert
old format keys to new ones.
-Ray
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