From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 04:29:50 +0800
To: <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Subject: Re: Streams, Voice, and Sensitive Dependence
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At 1:53 PM -0500 on 12/4/98, Lee Davis wrote:


> It is my understanding that the PGP algorithm is primarily intended as a
>block
> cypher.

PGP is not a cipher. PGP is an application with a bunch of ciphers in it,
most of the block ones.

PGPfone is not a cipher either, it's an applicatoin with a bunch of ciphers
in it, most of them stream ones...

Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
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