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- From: pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk (James Petts)
- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:58:06 GMT
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- In article <JRG.93Jan28102802@oak41.doc.ic.ac.uk>, jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James
- Grinter) wrote:
- >
- > In article <C1IpJM.97K@demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >
- > In article <JIM.93Jan27123206@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk> Jim Reid,
- > jim@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
- >
- > >And where can any of us buy encryption devices which use RSA (let
- > >alone ones for real-time encoding/decoding of telephone
- > >conversations)?
- >
- > Don't need to buy it: you can get PGP which is an excellent RSA
- > implementation for free from a whole host of sites. You can even ftp it
- > from the US if you like :-)
- >
- > Oh dear. PGP _includes_ RSA, as is pointed out in the documents.
-
- True, but the reason that most people want PGP is *FOR* the RSA
- implementation.
-
- > Also
- > *in the documents* is the fact that anyone using it in the states
- > would be infringing the RSA patent.
-
- True: hence my inclusion about the details of ownership of the RSA patents.
-
- > Further, it states that it should
- > not be distributed inside the states, and that the encryption code was
- > written in Europe.
- >
- > Also pointed out, is that not all of the message is encrypted with
- > RSA, if I remember correctly, because that would take too long.
-
- Well, that is an option which is \quote{*in the documents*}\endquote. You
- may encrypt the whole using RSA, or you may use the public key facility to
- facilitate secure transmission of a private key.
-
- >
- > Now about this real-time business...
-
- Now, there is the rub...
-
- > James.
- > --
- > James Grinter, c/o Dept Of Computing, Imperial College, LONDON, SW7 2BZ.
- > Aeval({227406,131304,719166,950732,993440,1364628,1491756,1868584,1235232,;
- > 2151480,2524368,2802876,2769312,2839886,3104325,1824},;
- > {|x,y| QQout(chr((x%2048)/y)+chr(int((x/2048)/y))) })
-
-
- ===> James Petts <===
-
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