NODE d09f5cc9Re: Commercial PGP: Verifying Trustworthiness
peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>Thu, 26 Aug 93 11:25:47 PDT
> Basically, if both commercial PGP and freeware PGP produce exactly the
> same encrypted files as output based on the same keys, and if you have
> the source code and can trust freeware PGP, then it can be stated that
> commercial PGP is secure.
pgp and viacrypt will always generate differnt outputs: pgp
adds some pseudo-random stuff to the start of the file it is
encrypting to ensure that a file encrypts differently each time.
peter