At 04:31 PM 12/01/2001 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP?
OpenPGP, ClosedPGP, GPG, PGP2.x, and X.509 all have blazingly ugly data
formats,
especially for keys. The main advantages of recycling one of the
N variations on PGP
Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP?
Hmm. AES-256 with SHA-256? Children, what's wrong with the balance
in this system?
How does a user verify authenticity of another user's public key?
Aside from being incompatible with anything else on the net, how is this
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--=_NextPart_000_0006_01C17AEB.9F8D37E0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
The AES-256 is used independently from SHA-256 and for a different
purpose. One is used for encryption, the other for
Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP?
Hmm. AES-256 with SHA-256? Children, what's wrong with the balance in this
system?
How does a user verify authenticity of another user's public key?
Aside from being incompatible with anything else on the net, how is this
