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Subject: Re: E-mail Encryption
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson @ cisco . com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 08:10:35 -0500
To: Peter da Silva <peter @ baileynm . com>
Cc: macgyver @ tos . net (MacGyver), firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9801071536 . AA10534 @ baileynm . com>
References: <199801070018 . SAA31044 @ starbase . tos . net>

At 09:36 AM 1/7/98 -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:

>
>Unfortunately PGP 5.0+ encryption is incompatible with PGP 2.6, which is
>what most of the people who use PGP are using. I understand the political
>reasons for switching to D-H key exchange to get out from under RSA, but
>I'm going to stick with 2.6 until there's a really compatible upgrade path
>that works on both protocols and all platforms.
>

That's what I thought when I first upgraded from Eudora 3.0.3 to 3.0.5,
which included the Eudora Pro PGP 5.0 OEM plugin.

But it's not true.

If you go to http://www.pgp.com/products/eudora.cgi (and for a nominal
$5 fee), you'll see that it does indeed support RSA signatures.

I'm using it, and it works fine.

- paul


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