>Hans asked:
>
>>When implementing PGP base encryption, is this implementation MUST use
>>symetrically Algorithms ?? Is it possible to use only the >public/private
key ?
At 01:43 PM 7/19/99 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
>There currently isn't a way to do it under the OpenPGP Draft. Why would
>you want to? Symmetric algorithms are generally one or two orders of
>magnitude faster, and as far as we can tell, every bit as secure.
Actually, security is better on the symmetric algorithms, since PK
algorithms can be more vulnerable to attack depending on the data being
encrypted. They're pretty safe when encrypting random data (i.e. a secret
key).
Rick.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
