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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    Re: HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp?
From:       Johan Wevers <johanw () vulcan ! xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2001-06-19 17:53:01
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Len Sassaman wrote:

> PGP 1.0 was GPL'd as well, and there's a rather nice RSA implementation as
> part of it.

Did the RSA implementation change significantly in 2.x?

> FWIW, 1.0 did not use IDEA,

No, it used an own algorithm, BassOmatic, but unfortunately it proved
to be flawed.

> but is also completely incompatable with any PGP implementation we're
> using today.

Would it? If someone would write GnuPG plugins for the BassOmatic cipher
of pgp 1 and an MD4 hash plugin, would GnuPG then be able to decrypt and
verify pgp 1.0 messages? What I see from the pgp 1 documentation is that
the basic structure (pubkey algo to encrypt session key of symm algo) did
not change since pgp 1.0.

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