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

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From: ? the platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-08-19 04:51:14 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 12:51:14 +0800

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From: ? the platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 12:51:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PGP5i supports RSA keys?
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On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, David Downey wrote:

[...]

> Even though you can generate 
> RSALIB based keys, why do so when there is a newer and better algorythm 
> supplied with the 5.0?

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.


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