1993-04-29 - Re: Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-04-29 17:40:11 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 10:40:11 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 10:40:11 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security
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Sy Verpunc says:
> : At risk of getting the goats of some friends of mine who read the list, I'm
> : tending to agree with Tim's ideas here.  Brief conversation with Jim Bidzos
> : at the cypunx mtg indicated that he is very much up for something along the
> : lines of a personal encryption product that would meet our needs.  From a
> 
> All he has to do is let us pay a licence fee for pgp.  What's the advantage
> to him in asking for a different piece of code that uses RSAREF and DES
> instead of Phil's code and IDEA?

Why don't you ask him? He's jim@rsa.com. I'd be polite.

.pm





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