Re: Basic Crypto info wanted

From: kurt wismer (kurtw_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:38:02 -0500

Andreas D. Landmark wrote:
> In article <q444qv4dve699vo78sbe8dus82e6ajfjmd@4ax.com>, Mxsmanic wrote:
>
>>Kevin writes:
>>
>>
>>>What actual software packages out there really implement some of the
>>>most secure ciphers really well?
>>
>>PGP is the standard. See http://www.pgp.com, or http://www.pgpi.com, or
>>http://www.gnupg.org (there are several different versions of PGP, all
>>interoperable for the most part).
>>
>
>
> GNUPG being the opensource counterpart to PGP.
> (gnu privacy guard), gnupg.org
>
> However as I understood the OP he was looking for symmetric ciphers,
> will GPG is a good software package it's mostly tailored for
> PKI-ciphers...

typically in a pki situation the assymetric cipher is only used to
encrypt/decrypt a session key for a symmetric cipher and the symmetric
cipher is used to encrypt the actual data you intend to secure... 

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