Snake_Oil_punks was Re: SafE Mail Corporation

Talked with Randy of Safe Mail Corporation on the phone.  

Among the stuff he claimed was that

        PGP has the secret key in its public key!

        Found out that not only does this algorithm use 22 characters.  
        The characters are the ones only found on the keyboard.

        SafeMail uses a proprietary Russian algorithm.

        
Not only is this company misquoting it's making up as it goes along. :)

> Talked with Randy of Safe Mail Corporation on the phone.  
>         PGP has the secret key in its public key!

Huh?  Can you explain what this means?  I'd sure like to know.

-derek

On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:

> > Talked with Randy of Safe Mail Corporation on the phone.  
> >         PGP has the secret key in its public key!
> 
> Huh?  Can you explain what this means?  I'd sure like to know.

It's obvious, silly. The public key exponent has the private key exponent
embedded in it,  information theory and modular arithmetic be damned :)

Simon