Streams, Voice, and Sensitive Dependence

Robert Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Fri Dec 4 12:29:50 PST 1998



At 1:53 PM -0500 on 12/4/98, Lee Davis wrote:


> It is my understanding that the PGP algorithm is primarily intended as a
>block
> cypher.

PGP is not a cipher. PGP is an application with a bunch of ciphers in it,
most of the block ones.

PGPfone is not a cipher either, it's an applicatoin with a bunch of ciphers
in it, most of them stream ones...

Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
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