Announcement: Very Good Privacy
Benjamin Grosman
bgrosman at healey.com.au
Sat Nov 30 04:08:14 PST 1996
Dear Sir,
> 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. >>
What puzzles me is that he included two cyphers that are _extremely_ easy to
break, the vignere cypher and the ascii cypher. Why include these? And what
is his new permutation of RC4 and DES?
Yours Sincerely,
Benjamin Grosman
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