1993-08-29 - Re: Examination of ViaCrypt’s PGP by members of this group

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: smb@research.att.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-08-29 13:03:26 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 29 Aug 93 06:03:26 PDT

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 93 06:03:26 PDT
To: smb@research.att.com
Subject: Re: Examination of ViaCrypt's PGP by members of this group
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> No, there is an important difference:  you'd be starting from known-
> good source.  That might make the task feasible.

I can almost guarantee that you will not get to see the RSA sources.
And I can almost guarantee that the REST of the code for the product
will be straight PGP, similar to the freeware...  I can't guarantee
that ViaCrypt won't decide to do something stupid.

-derek






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