NODE a62b561fA fatal flaw in PGP 6.0
Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>Wed, 4 Feb 1998 03:38:22 +0800
This was posted anonymously to alt.security.pgp last night
>Subject: PGP 6.0 alpha3
>Date: 3 Feb 1998 00:15:56 +0100
>
>Anyone else having problems with the alpha of PGP 6.0? When I try to
encrypt e-mail I get an error:
>
>FATAL ERROR
>
>Unable to find key "ghost@nsa.gov"
>Please obtain a new key from Network associates.
>
>
>Other than that it's pretty slick! I'm not sure I'd have the default
cypher as ROT-13 though! I changed mine to RC-2 255-bit.
>
>Anyone else?
Anyone like to confirm this?
NODE 05c6e59fRe: A fatal flaw in PGP 6.0
lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)Wed, 4 Feb 1998 04:08:28 +0800
* Anonymous wrote:
>>FATAL ERROR
>>
>>Unable to find key "ghost@nsa.gov"
>>Please obtain a new key from Network associates.
>Anyone like to confirm this?
No the key requested is 'snoop@microsoft.com'.
But the ROT13 encoding is true even for PGP5. If you move or rename the
randseed.bin to an other location (i.E. to install pgp2.6.3(i)n and pgp5
simultanusly) the file will be modified, but all encrypted messages have the
same session key.
On the other hand pgp5 does not confirm the OpenPGP draft. A converter can
be found at ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/pub/mitarb/lutz/crypt/software/pgp/OpenPGP/