Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 15769
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5/6     /usr/local/bin/premail is installed.
        It connects to the "nym" remailer.
        It requires pgp2.6 to work.
        The nym server uses a 2048 bit key.
        Ours only supports 1024 bit keys.
        \_
        jon@soda:~ ttyRP 1:19:07am 6% pgp -kg
        Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.2 - Public-key encryption for the masses.
        (c) 1990-1994 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 11 Oct 94
        Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
        Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
        Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
        Current time: 1999/05/07 08:22 GMT
        Pick your RSA key size:
            1)   512 bits- Low commercial grade, fast but less secure
            2)   768 bits- High commercial grade, medium speed, good security
            3)  1024 bits- "Military" grade, slow, highest security
        Choose 1, 2, or 3, or enter desired number of bits: 2048
        Generating an RSA key with a 2048-bit modulus.
        --I dont know who the fuck you are, but 1) you didnt mail root
        and 2) you arent even smart enough to read the fucking directions
        that pgp gives you on a fucking silver platter.  --Jon
        \_ Valium, homeboy.  He probably meant that pgp supports a
           maximum 1024 bit keylength.  -John
                \_ but it doesn't.
                   \_ Yes, I know that, and you know that, but it didn't
                      show up in the options and he was probably tired
                      and didn't think that far.  No reason to go apeshit.
                                                        -John "fuck"
                        \_ wierd. tried again, it worked now. BUt it
                           failed before, complaining aobut keylength.
        \_Why is soda stuck on 2.6.2?  PGP 5 is available for *NIX, with 6
        available within the month.  6 supports 4096-bit keys, which if you
        read Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson's new book) is secure for 100 years
        and may even be suitable to keep secure until men are no longer
        capable of evil! (forever).  As far as I know, the book does not have
        a protagonist who attended UCB in the 90's and studied CS (as snow
        crash did) --cody
        \_
        /usr/local/bin/pgp      /usr/local/bin/pgpencrypt
        /usr/local/bin/pgp5             /usr/local/bin/pgpk
        /usr/local/bin/pgp_old          /usr/local/bin/pgps
        /usr/local/bin/pgpdecode        /usr/local/bin/pgpshow
        /usr/local/bin/pgpe             /usr/local/bin/pgpsign
        /usr/local/bin/pgped            /usr/local/bin/pgpv
        --Jon. Hint Hint, it is possible to have both installed.
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