Re: Encryption for a program.

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From: Peter Howkins
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:00

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Rob Kendrick wrote
>I wrote
> > Erm, PGP uses IDEA. Blowfish is partially susceptable to
differential
> > cryptanalysis (at reduced rounds). IDEA is probably the best bet,
though
>
> From what I understand, only if you ask it to, otherwise it uses RSA.
You are right PGP does use RSA, but that is for its key management. RSA
is
rock hard cipher, that PGP uses to encrypt keys for IDEA, then the rest
of the
message is done in IDEA (I think, never having used pgp myself, and
going by
this magazine article)
>
> Cheers
no prob

Peter
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p.j.howkins@lboro.ac.uk

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From: Peter Howkins <p.j.howkins@lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Encryption for a program.
Date: 1998/08/19
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