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Re: "PGP Encryption Proves Powerful"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Jun 3 14:56:32 2003

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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:38:21 -0700
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0306030814530.2102-100000@bolt.sonic.net>

At 08:17 AM 06/03/2003 -0700, bear wrote:
>what he said was "with cryptanalysis alone."
>Rubber-hose methods are not cryptanalysis, and
>neither is password guessing.

Eh?  Password guessing certainly is.

> >I'm not aware of a PGP port to the Psion, but at least the
> >Psion 3/3a/3c generation were 8086-like processors,
> >and there was a C compiler ported to them,
> >so perhaps somebody ported one of the earlier PGPs.
>
>IIRC, there was/is a psion linux port, with gcc.

Looks like it's still in active development,
mainly for the Psion 5 series - they've even got
X Windows running on them, as well as PGP.


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