Re: PGP scripting...

Tom Arseneault wrote:

> As for the usage of the key in encryption and decryption, public key

Please do not use public key encryption for bulk data, even if you accept the long times. It is a bad idea. If there are n possible messgaes, it only takes at most n trials to decrypt the message, no matter your key size (if the encrypting key is known; typically it is the public key and it is known). This problem is justification in itself to have a two stage system for encryption of bulk data.
(there is someone at counterpane that can explain it in more detail ;-) Received on Tue Jan 21 01:01:17 2003