1996-06-20 - Re: Safemail

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: reagle@MIT.EDU (Joseph M. Reagle Jr.)
Message Hash: 3b1facd554b7d86f875b654183f1730d473ab3fc210681979c5b12ebedcf2d79
Message ID: <199606192352.SAA10970@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <9606191626.AA24637@rpcp.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-06-20 06:30:25 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:30:25 +0800

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:30:25 +0800
To: reagle@MIT.EDU (Joseph M. Reagle Jr.)
Subject: Re: Safemail
In-Reply-To: <9606191626.AA24637@rpcp.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <199606192352.SAA10970@manifold.algebra.com>
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Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:
> 
> At 04:19 PM 6/18/96 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >        SafeMail uses a proprietary Russian algorithm.
> 
>         Maybe it is GOST. Schneir covers it, and there is a white paper on
> it at the b_crypt site.

But GOST isn't based on public key cryptography, it is a symmetric
algorithm, right?

And these guys claim that they use PK cryptography.

	- Igor.





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