NODE e725f105S/MIME
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NODE f42830a2Re: S/MIME
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote: > Is S/MIME secure than PGP ? Its hard to tell. However PGP has a number of advangers over S/MIME, it is better supported by cilents, PGP signtures are smaller then S/MIME sigs. In addtion S/MIME sigs normaly have encoded in them a lot of infomation about the user makeing it very difficalt to use via an anon remailer. Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. Save the ABC Is $0.08 per day too much to pay? ex-net.scum and proud I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yucky' a convincing argument
NODE 928ec016Re: S/MIME
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <19971103044957.24885.qmail@hotmail.com>, on 11/02/97 at 08:49 PM, "Nobuki Nakatuji" <bd1011@hotmail.com> said: >Is S/MIME secure than PGP ? No it is not! S/MIME specs require support for weak RC2/40 encryption. This is not secure!!! Add to this the fact that to date no S/MIME vendor has ever released their crypto source code. I for one would not trust Net$cape or Micro$oft to secure an outhouse let alone my communications. They have shown their incompentence in this area time and time again. Weak Crypto = No Security No Source = No Security - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNF3c7I9Co1n+aLhhAQGtrQP/UoYnM5FpOfu2ytg5K3jGpz2i5t7x/K1+ MGSvPIMaPkrwkfRjFz3rTg8fRrUy0d4eG1s41DhNJIJ4EJZU3r2pHGTPJkjtr4Hr 7io3DDVjYyr5h+ssHED2xHMLySi2h5ZSQuraZm5/qWeDDjCxgWPxzEaD53ui+SSz PrcexIJWb/E= =fK4Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
NODE 0664ad0dRe: S/MIME
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Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
At 08:49 PM 11/2/97 PST, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
>Is S/MIME secure than PGP ?
No. S/MIME uses 40 bit keys, which are trivially breakable by paralell
brute-force key search attacks.
Jonathan Wienke
PGP Key Fingerprints:
7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928
3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC
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RSA export-o-matic:
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
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Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="pgp00002.pgp"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pgp00002.pgp"
Content-Description: "PGP signature"
LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgTUVTU0FHRS0tLS0tClZlcnNpb246IFBHUCBmb3Ig
QnVzaW5lc3MgU2VjdXJpdHkgNS41CgppUUEvQXdVQk5GN09Nc0pGMGtYcXB3
M01FUUowNWdDY0N6dVA1dW5aN0RBUlRZdVhqQmNSZ1lPcnQrTUFvT0xtCk1w
eHB1TWkydFd4cVF3UjFoSm43OHpoeQo9WitKOAotLS0tLUVORCBQR1AgTUVT
U0FHRS0tLS0tCg==
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