1995-07-28 - Re: Hooks to Crypto

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From: Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-07-28 15:24:02 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 08:24:02 PDT

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From: Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 08:24:02 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Hooks to Crypto
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On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:

> Philo Zimmerman would almost certainly
> win if they ever took him to court, but by harassing him in this more
> subtle way, they destroy the impact of PGP in the marketplace, get MIT
> to support an official (and perhaps customized for the NSA to have weak
> keys) version,

I've personally pulled apart the innards of both MIT pgp 2.6.2 and the 
non-MIT pgp 2.6.2i in order to generate large primes and full RSA keys.  

There are no hacks in MIT pgp that cause it to generate weak keys.


- Andy

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    • 1995-07-28 (Fri, 28 Jul 95 03:45:54 PDT) - Re: NSA and the NCSA/Apache web servers - fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
      • 1995-07-28 (Fri, 28 Jul 95 04:38:59 PDT) - Hooks to Crypto (was Re: NSA and the NCSA/Apache web servers) - “Andrew D Meredith” <meredith@ecid.cig.mot.com>
        • 1995-07-28 (Fri, 28 Jul 95 06:08:21 PDT) - Re: Hooks to Crypto> - fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
          • 1995-07-28 (Fri, 28 Jul 95 06:52:17 PDT) - Re: Hooks to Crypto> - “Andrew D Meredith” <meredith@ecid.cig.mot.com>
            • 1995-07-28 (Fri, 28 Jul 95 07:07:28 PDT) - Re: Hooks to Crypto - fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
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