From: "David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:30:55 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Announcement: Very Good Privacy
Message-ID: <199612020530.XAA24979@cdale3.midwest.net>
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To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sun Dec 01 23:30:00 1996
> Dear Sir,
> 
> >     I'm not sure how an encryption product that uses encryption
> >     algorithms weaker than Pretty Good Privacy can be described
> >     as being better than PGP.  
> >
> >     Especially when all the algorithms listed have known problems
> >     of one kind, or another.   << And yes, I know that the known
> >     problems -- in some instances --- are entirely theoretical in
> >     nature.  >>
> 
> What puzzles me is that he included two cyphers that are _extremely_
>  easy to
> break, the vignere cypher and the ascii cypher. Why include these? And
>  what
> is his new permutation of RC4 and DES?
> 

Concur.  Also, let's see: only available for Win95/NT, no sources
available, and cyphers that are known to be weak - and that can
be used without any warnings whatsoever - anyone else watching
their Snake-Oil-O-Meter get pegged?

Give us some source code, port it to XWindows, and then maybe
we'll talk.

dave


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