From: fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 10:16:55 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RSA 'weak link' in PGP?
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I just got (what I think is) the alt.security.pgp faq.
I quote:
    ...the IDEA encryption algorithm used in PGP is actually
    MUCH stronger than RSA given the same key length.  Even with a 1024 bit
    RSA key, it is believed that IDEA encryption is still stronger, and,
    since a chain is no stronger than it's weakest link, it is believed that
    RSA is actually the weakest part of the RSA - IDEA approach.
Confirmation?

-fnerd
quote me

- -
cryptocosmology- sufficiently advanced communication is indistinguishable
                 from noise - god is in the least significant bits
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Version: 2.3a

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ui6XaCZmKH68fOWYYySKAzPkXyfYKnOlzsIjp2tPEot1Q5A3/n54PBKrUDN9tHVz
3Ch466q9EKUuDulTU6OLsilzmRvQJn0EJhzd4pht6hSnC1R3seYNhUYhoJViCcCG
sRjLQs4iVVM=
=9wqs
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