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Nosey Government

From Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
Subject Nosey Government
References <51D545B5.9.usenetcspgptec@bismaninfo.hopto.org> <dq3ar89b78fg90c913cb4ms8tec0gtbmem@4ax.com>
Message-ID <7f1e560822d7db781654fa42815ea1e4@dizum.com> (permalink)
Date 2013-07-07 23:23 +0200
Newsgroups comp.security.pgp.tech
Organization dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider

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 > Can the government crack PGP or GPG?

> If you're seriously skittish about this, you can't really believe any of
> the publicized information that is out there.  What my suggestion would be
> is to revert your keys and encryption program to PGP 2.3a OR 2.6ui (with
> 2.3a key generation specified).  Zimmerman's PGP 2.3a was the latest
> version that was out when the government got scared of how hard it was to
> crack for the NSA (at that time it was beyond dozens of years, even for a
> quick, smaller size key). At this point the US government ended up
> reclassifying this encryption software as a munition and rendered it
> illegal for usage in the United States.  New versions of PGP were then
> released using the new, patented RSAREF encryption algorithm.

OK. What can you say about GnuPG? Everybody able to investigate open source
software. I heard nothing abusive about GnuPG.

Back to PGP 2.3a: what kind of symmetric cyphers he use? CAST5 and DES, I
guess.
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    Re: Nosey Government Maximus <gladiator@thearena.com> - 2013-06-10 07:29 -0700
      Re: Nosey Government "Thor Kottelin" <thor@anta.net> - 2013-06-10 17:42 +0300
      Re: Nosey Government Peter Schoo <p.schoo@gmx.net> - 2013-06-11 22:52 +0200
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    Re: Nosey Government Johann Beretta <invalid@invalid.org> - 2017-11-03 01:50 -0700
  Re: Nosey Government Richard <jhtjhrthrt@43y43ehr.hh> - 2013-07-04 15:38 +0200
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