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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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