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Article #27422Re: StuffIt Files at Simtel20.arpa
From: dorner
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 14:49
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 14:49
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>Speaking of StuffIt, the time seems right for a new version which includes
>a public key encription scheme and a utility to generate keys. I could then
>generate a pair of keys, use StuffIt to compress, encript; then binhex it
>and upload it, listing the decoding key in the message header.
That might be nice, but those algorithms are EXPENSIVE. If I remember
rightly, we would be talking about HOURS to encrypt/decrypt even moderately
sized files. Large-scale DES requires hardware implementation.
>Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist) pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu
>Usenet: ...!{ihnp4, cbatt}!codas!usfvax2!pollock
>GEnie: W.POLLOCK
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: StuffIt Files at Simtel20.arpa Message-ID: <15200009@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 21 Apr 88 14:49:00 GMT References: <39900010@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk:39900010:uxg.cso.uiuc.edu:15200009:000:781 Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner Apr 21 08:49:00 1988