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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:39
Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:53:24 +0100
nexus@tatoosh.com wrote:
>
> It is up to the programmers to create and disseminate strong, secure
> encryption technology as far and wide as possible, enabling all people to
> exercise their god given right to be secure. To further this end we HAVE TO
> make it easier to use things like PGP, GPG, etc. with mainstream email and
> news clients. Producing crippled 56bit systems may make the governments
> happy, but they will only hurt our security in the end. If weak encryption
> is allowed to create a foothold it will be that much harder for better
> systems to be introduced later.
>
> So, who's working to make things easier to use?
Since I am the author of the package, I am (by nature of the
situation) not in a proper position to argue with you if you choose
to call it 'crippled' from the beginning. But implied by my posting
is at least my personal conviction that strong crypto CAN be
produced despite the 56-bit restriction. If my stuff indeed turns
out to be poor, more knowledgeable people, I believe, certainly can
produce 56-bit crypto that satisfy any practical security requirement.
M. K. Shen
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:39