1995-08-31 - opinions on RSA Secure?

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From: “William R. Nugent” <wnug@loc.gov>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-31 13:18:22 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 06:18:22 PDT

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From: "William R. Nugent" <wnug@loc.gov>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 06:18:22 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: opinions on RSA Secure?
Message-ID: <199508311318.JAA47267@rs8.loc.gov>
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c'punks:

RSA Secure appears to be a neat commercial package: it loads easily, runs fast, and
and generates an 80-bit key using Rivest's RC4. It has an "emergency access"
feature (splittable key escrow) which can, however, be disabled by the user.
Has anyone checked out the innards? Hoe secure is it in industrial/commercial
usage?; against the TLAs?; any hidden trapdoors?
Thanks in advance for your views.

Bill Nugent
Library of Congress
(a personal, not an institutional, query)

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• 1995-08-31 (Thu, 31 Aug 95 06:18:22 PDT) - opinions on RSA Secure? - “William R. Nugent” <wnug@loc.gov>
  • 1995-08-31 (Thu, 31 Aug 95 08:21:34 PDT) - Re: opinions on RSA Secure? - karlsiil@attmail.com (Karl A Siil)
  • 1995-08-31 (Thu, 31 Aug 95 15:51:30 PDT) - Re: opinions on RSA Secure? - starrd <starrd@iia2.org>
    • 1995-09-01 (Thu, 31 Aug 95 17:21:38 PDT) - Re: opinions on RSA Secure? - SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
      • 1995-09-01 (Thu, 31 Aug 95 17:43:41 PDT) - Re: opinions on RSA Secure? - starrd <starrd@iia2.org>
        • 1995-09-01 (Fri, 1 Sep 95 04:39:57 PDT) - Re: opinions on RSA Secure? - SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
      • 1995-09-01 (Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:27:48 PDT) - Re: opinions on RSA Secure? - Deranged Mutant <rrothenb@ic.sunysb.edu>