PGP problems with PMMail 2000 Pro

[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 07:12:14 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 4:26:55 AM, Brian wrote:
>> This may be a limitation in the PGP SDK, but if it isn't it looks like
>
>    I think it might be.  TB!'s PGP support is nice, but is also quite limited
>in what it can do.  It seems that the people who programmed the API didn't
>quite think about people having multiple keys on either side of the
>communication.
>

Indeed. I was trying to get BoB and Ike to allow for this with
selection of defaults for each addressee and for signing keys etc, but
I think they had lost a lot of their interest by that point.

I suspect that the SDK can only decrypt with RSA keys, I know that
there is a general preference for DH keys rather than RSA to foil some
vulnerabilities with key finger prints etc.

However, what do you do when someone else uses 2.6.3i and can't change?
PMMail/2 and PGP 5.0i can get around this, surely it is just a matter
of compiling the SDK with the RSAREF library linked in isn't it?

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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
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