From: cactus@bb.com (L. Todd Masco)
 To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: cactus@bb.com (L. Todd Masco)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 94 04:12:25 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: (fwd) "Will You Be a Terrorist?"
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In article <35gl4b$qtn@bb.com>, I blathered:
>I do have a couple questions that aren't terribly related:
>
>	- Are there any known PK message formats that commute?  It seems
>	 clear to me that PGP and RIPEM do not, since that makes no
>	 sense for private key ciphers like DES/3DES and IDEA.
I have no idea why I phrased so badly: clearly, commuting makes
sense with DES and IDEA.  What I meant was "since it doesn't
make sense for compound message formats where the private keys
are encrypted in public key ciphers, as IDEA is in PGP and
DES/3DES are in RIPEM.
Serves me right for posting after being awake for so long.
-- 
L. Todd Masco  | "A man would simply have to be as mad as a hatter, to try and
cactus@bb.com  |  change the world with a plastic platter." - Todd Rundgren
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