NODE 52606154RE: !! Point 'n Crypt -- Win95 Privacy for Everyone !!
Walt Armour <walt@blarg.net>Thu, 12 Dec 1996 11:38:08 -0800 (PST)
The focus for the current PnC offering is more privacy than security. To
avoid any issues of ITAR and export we chose to make the first version
weak. There will be future offerings that use stronger, non-exportable
crypto.
As for the posting, I have seen the occasional commercial post float
through. This will be the only time that the post will show up on
Cypherpunks.
Now if we can keep any long threads from getting kicked off (an all too
common occurrence). Perhaps replies could be taken to e-mail...
walt
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From: Gabe Kostolny[SMTP:gabe@ixlabs.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 1996 2:45 AM
To: Walt Armour
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: !! Point 'n Crypt -- Win95 Privacy for Everyone !!
>
> Point 'n Crypt uses 40-bit DES-CBC (exportable), salted SHA passphrases,
> and conforms to PKCS #5 and PKCS #7.
>
It seems to me that anything that's exportable is pretty damn useless, if
you really want to keep something secret. Also... I kinda got the
impression that this list wasn't for silly commercial traffic?
-gabe
NODE 88f86b0eRe: !! Point 'n Crypt -- Win95 Privacy for Everyone !!
Rich Graves <rcgraves@ix.netcom.com>Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:23:58 -0800 (PST)
It seems you posted this everywhere but where it belongs:
comp.os.ms-windows.announce. I think it's likely that the moderator
would approve the posting, even if he is annoyed.
Messages with more than one exclamation point on a line are technically
off-topic, though.
-rich