Re: RSA

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From: Marc VanHeyningen
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:43

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Thus said sspy@west.darkside.com (mshannon):
>I have been looking for a program that uses the RSA for the actual 
>message encryption, not just for the DES or IDEA key. I found an old copy 
>of a program called Iris, produced in England by a Mr. Peter Moreton at 
>Digital Crypto. Apparently this Iris does just that, but it's hard to 
>tell from the cryptic help file. Does anyone know of this program? It 
>also has the DES and several other ciphers, but they are all in one big 
>.exe file. Thanx in advance...

If you don't mind me asking, why would using just RSA without a
symmetric encryption method be an advantage?
-- 
Marc VanHeyningen    mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu    MIME & RIPEM accepted


The dead fish goes with the flow.

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From: mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu (Marc VanHeyningen)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: RSA
Message-ID: <1993Jan6.134352.24917@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:43:41 GMT
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