Announcement: Very Good Privacy

[jonathon]

On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Mark Rosen wrote:

> 	I have written an encryption program called Very Good Privacy 

	Trademark violation here.   Probably not a good thing.

> 95/NT. It supports drag-and-drop encryption using the following algorithms:
> ASCII (Caesar), BlowFish, DES, IDEA, NewDES, RC4, Safer SK-128, and
> Vigenere. After the files are encrypted, the user has the option of

	<< text deleted >>

> Good Privacy is only "pretty good" but Very Good Privacy is "very good."

	I'm not sure how an encryption product that uses encryption
	algorithms weaker than Pretty Good Privacy can be described
	as being better than PGP.  

	Especially when all the algorithms listed have known problems
	of one kind, or another.   << And yes, I know that the known
	problems -- in some instances --- are entirely theoretical in
	nature.  >>

        xan

        jonathon
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