🚀 go-pugleaf

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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