On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:42:45PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > In fact SSL negotiates a (random) symmetric > encryption key using public key encryption anyway, so can in fact be > more secure than simply using public-key encryption (and much faster > computationally).
I'm pretty sure GPG actually uses symmetric encryption, too; it just uses public key cryptography to encrypt the symmetric key. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
