-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MIGbMAoGBFUIAQECAgP+A4GMADCBiAKBgCl79/jl0DEVl1GQzOHlzjDmChDDxnWO Acd7jShj2x1vclFh6vbHx9IJqkQdwNhNAWf8XnTrqBDN+VSBc1qdT6nSEAbNPxHD XcvY2DudhuRaRBVLgUQ4scTK657m90Q+bTL5yIh2MaFipUw9BgbIXPTDlksSskWP 9oHjo+pCJC+lAgMBAAE= MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, DT+ZyepTl4TuHEa3jiojjmLnH8GYnfP2owhSC0rQO7sq6vsmgUifrl/usgJ4VckB kxc7p7GK1kMeqPRG/1LLHcZDpOYvWEhbLSmV/xKpZ+nmj/wd0oBARuxd7nmRnxbS DE4WJzaT3I3rhREjtY0fjB/WFZCglu5IpOgsHuGlY/0= On Aug 25, 5:05pm, Timothy Newsham wrote:

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But look on the bright side...

This will blow David Sternlight out of the water!

will it? the NSA seems to be pretty happy with the way PKP handles things. PKP has an arangement with viacrypt not to release source. It might be safe, but I wouldnt trust it given the way that the NSA pushes commerce to install backdoors in strong encryption.

As long as there is an approved version (ie., non-commercial, made by the PGP cabal) -- interoperability will prevent any sneaking of back doors into the message stream. The only place to worry is with key generation, both IDEA and RSA. I wouldn't be surprised if they're using the BSAFE object code or something equivalent. In that case, key generation (random number routines, actually) might be outside the package. Does anyone here know?

btw, how did they get around PKP's rule about using the interface provided which uses DES ?

If they're using a general purpose, purchased library from RSA (not RSAREF) then there's no built-in DES limitation. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to the commercial version, for my machine here at work. Until then, I'm limited to RIPEM -- which few others on this list speak. - <> - Carl Ellison cme@sw.stratus.com - Stratus Computer Inc. M3-2-BKW TEL: (508)460-2783 - 55 Fairbanks Boulevard ; Marlborough MA 01752-1298 FAX: (508)624-7488 -----BEGIN RIPEM PUBLIC KEY----- User: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com PublicKeyInfo: MIGbMAoGBFUIAQECAgP+A4GMADCBiAKBgCl79/jl0DEVl1GQzOHlzjDmChDDxnWO Acd7jShj2x1vclFh6vbHx9IJqkQdwNhNAWf8XnTrqBDN+VSBc1qdT6nSEAbNPxHD XcvY2DudhuRaRBVLgUQ4scTK657m90Q+bTL5yIh2MaFipUw9BgbIXPTDlksSskWP 9oHjo+pCJC+lAgMBAAE= MD5OfPublicKey: 39D9860686A9F075A9A83D49589C677A -----END RIPEM PUBLIC KEY-----

-- End of excerpt from Timothy Newsham

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