Re: New vs Old (was Snake Oil)

2003-06-04 Thread bear
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I confess to being confused - though admittedly part of the blame for this is my own ignorance. I remember a time when PGP was a command line application. The only algorithms it used were IDEA (symmetric), RSA (assymetric) and MD5 (hash). I came to

Re: New vs Old (was Snake Oil)

2003-06-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:53 AM 06/03/2003 -0700, bear wrote: IDEA is still a good cipher as far as I know, but PGP has been driven away from it in the US due to intellectual-property issues. Rather than continue with incompatible versions for use inside/outside the USA, they're switching to CAST (although this is