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Re: PGP legality

1993-02-26 16:29:00
There's really no reason why PGP couldn't be rewriten to use rsaref
either.

Yes, there is.  RSAREF, as the License stands, does not allow you the
granularity to touch the RSA routines themselves, without prior
approval of RSADSI.

Given that approval, it MIGHT be possible to use RSAREF.  I haven't
had the time to explore this possibility, however another thing to
note is that PGP currently uses IDEA as its secret-key encryption
algorithm, not DES.

-derek


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