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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <bontchev.725039353@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1992Dec19.000207.15616@netcom.com> <a_rubin.724967325@dn66> <1992Dec22.003359.1777@netcom.com> <1992Dec22.060047.6744@qualcomm.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:49:13 GMT
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- karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
-
- > Amendment. I do not mean to disparage all the work that went into PGP,
- > but any competent and motivated C programmer could have produced
- > something comparable. Indeed, there are other independent RSA
- > implementations from outside the US, such as the "CRYPTOS" package
- > from Moscow.
-
- Well, there is even one from Bulgaria, implemented by a friend of
- mine. But it is by no means comparable with PGP. It uses full RSA to
- encrypt the message (instead of using a single-key cypher and use RSA
- only to encrypt the keys), so it is horrribly sloowww.... :-) It is
- shareware, the author requests $30 for it, but I definitively do not
- think that it is worth the price... Anyway, the author has told me
- that he as received only one registration... :-)
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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