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1997-08-19 - Re: PGP5i supports RSA keys?

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From: Mike <Michael.Johnson@mejl.com>
To: ? the platypus {aka David Formosa} <cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 1d9d43c2ffb1aa65cddbfe262def5ebaf2ea64d2ae65a35342c9a7b1ce0f1e2c
Message ID: <3.0.3.32.19970819080948.009b9190@localhost>
Reply To: <19970817123643.13713.qmail@hotmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-19 06:26:04 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:26:04 +0800

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From: Mike <Michael.Johnson@mejl.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:26:04 +0800
To: ? the platypus {aka David Formosa} <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PGP5i supports RSA keys?
In-Reply-To: <19970817123643.13713.qmail@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970819080948.009b9190@localhost>
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? the platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
>I will be useing PGP to sign NoCeMs and I wish to maximise
>the number of peaple will be able to use my posts.  For this I
>would have to use the old size key untill PGP5.0 gets a
>signifigent market share.

That thinking is backwards. If you sign with a DSS key, you will
increase PGP5 usage, not the other way around. Anybody is able
to run PGP5 today on Win32/Mac/Linux. If you can't get access
to at least one of those platforms, then you're not much of a
cypherpunk, are you?

Mike.

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Mike.

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