Mailing List Archive: Hello and 3DES

Hello and 3DES

Sep 5, 1998, 8:08 PM

Post #1 of 5 (644 views)

Hi,

I just subscribed to this mailling list and would like to help on gnupg
development.
I'm very interesting on a gnupg library for using in other programms like
remailers and integrated MUAs. Are their any plans in this direction?
Further more what about RSA and IDEA? IMHO their patents expires soon.
Possible a "plugin" or something else could be created for those who
like/need RSA and IDEA support?
Another question: Is somebody working on 3DES for gnupg?

A lot of questions but hopefully their are some answers. ;-)

cu
Michael

Re: Hello and 3DES [ In reply to ]

nb at thinkcoach

Sep 5, 1998, 2:00 PM

Post #2 of 5 (621 views)

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Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de> wrote:

> I'm very interesting on a gnupg library for using in other programms like
> remailers and integrated MUAs. Are their any plans in this direction?

I'm not aware of any such plans, but I agree that such a library would
be very useful. As soon as we have such a library it will be only a
small step to build a Perl extension module around it. (Such a module
is needed e.g. for the Majordomo 2 project).

May blessings from the eternal God surprise and overtake you!
Norbert.

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Re: Hello and 3DES [ In reply to ]

walterk at dip

Sep 5, 1998, 6:28 PM

Post #3 of 5 (620 views)

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Moin,

Am / On Sat, 5 Sep 1998 20:08:11 -0700 (MST), schriebst Du / you
wrote:

>I'm very interesting on a gnupg library for using in other programms like
>remailers and integrated MUAs. Are their any plans in this direction?

AFAIR there was a statement about this in this list a "long" time
ago...

>Further more what about RSA and IDEA? IMHO their patents expires soon.
>Possible a "plugin" or something else could be created for those who
>like/need RSA and IDEA support?

This exist. --load-extension <shared file name>
And implementation of IDEA and RAS too. They are not included in the
gnupg-distribution, but somewhere on ftp.guug.de/gcrypt/

Gruss,
Walter

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Re: Hello and 3DES [ In reply to ]

cwiegand at urgentmail

Sep 5, 1998, 9:29 PM

Post #4 of 5 (626 views)

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Just for general info, pgp4pine is a mua "plugin" for pine users. (You
asked about gpg support for MUAs, amongst other things. I have lots of
difficulty using gpg, (for example, gpg --help seems broken in 0.34, but i
need to check that version number). However, if anyone finds a bug, or
heck, even USES pgp4pine with gpg (or anything for that matter), I'd
appreciate an email, along with bug comments.

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Michael Roth wrote:

> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 20:08:11 -0700 (MST)
> From: Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de>
> To: GNU Privacy Guard <g10@net.lut.ac.uk>
> Subject: Hello and 3DES
>
> Hi,
>
> I just subscribed to this mailling list and would like to help on gnupg
> development.
> I'm very interesting on a gnupg library for using in other programms like
> remailers and integrated MUAs. Are their any plans in this direction?
> Further more what about RSA and IDEA? IMHO their patents expires soon.
> Possible a "plugin" or something else could be created for those who
> like/need RSA and IDEA support?
> Another question: Is somebody working on 3DES for gnupg?
>
> A lot of questions but hopefully their are some answers. ;-)
>
>
> cu
> Michael
>
>
>
>

Re: Hello and 3DES [ In reply to ]

wk at isil

Sep 7, 1998, 4:39 AM

Post #5 of 5 (622 views)

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Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de> writes:

> Further more what about RSA and IDEA? IMHO their patents expires soon.

RSA expires in fall 2000 but IDEA is going for a very long time
(2017?). Thre is no need for IDEA; other algorithms are now widely
used and assumed to be as secure as IDEA or securer. 3DES is believed
to be the most secure algorithm due to it's long history of
cryptanalyis.

> Possible a "plugin" or something else could be created for those who
> like/need RSA and IDEA support?

RSA is available (ftp.guug.de/pub/gcrypt/old/rsa.c or something like
this). IDEA is patented worldwide (but in Luxemborg??) and so we
should not use it.

Werner