IDEA/Strength?

[Bill Stewart]

At 05:57 AM 2/22/97 -0800, Toto wrote:
>> >>Is the strength, or lack thereof, of conventional PGP encryption
>> >>proportional to the length of the conventional password?
...
>  Are you saying that the strength of encryption provided by PGP
>is dependent upon the password one uses?

PGP _conventional_ encryption - the straight IDEA stuff,
not the public-key stuff.  pgp -c just uses a hash of a passphrase
as its encryption key, rather than generating a high-quality 128-bit key
and encrypting it with a public key.

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