From: Paul Elliott <paul.elliott@hrnowl.lonestar.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 23:14:15 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (cypherpunks mailing list)
Subject: Re: A hole in PGP
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If I were going to create a hole in PGP, I would create a "bug" in
PGP's key generation process which would limit the primes PGP
chooses to a relatively small subset. Then when I wanted to break,
I would factor by searching this small subset.

I could also try to put a bug in the code that chooses a Random
Idea key, making it choose from a small subset, that again could be
searched.

To put a bug in the idea portion of PGP would be difficult because
people can check if PGP can intemperate with other implementations
of IDEA.

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Paul Elliott                                  Telephone: 1-713-781-4543
Paul.Elliott@hrnowl.lonestar.org              Address:   3987 South Gessner #224
                                              Houston Texas 77063

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