RE: 2 interesting projects...

[Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes. PGP is a lot more than just a string encryption method, it includes
the whole process of signing, sealing and packaging. It's quite
extensive with a lot of code so porting the whole thing to MI would be a
significant task. Plus, I'm not sure if that type of port is permitted -
although the code is available to the public there are restrictions on
what you can do with it especially since there are different "owners" of
different pieces and you also have the whole "personal non commercial
use" thing.

TrailBlazer Systems, Inc.
http://www.as400ftp.com
AS/400 Communications & E-Commerce Solutions

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [SMTP:l.svalgaard@pentasafe.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:01 PM
> To:   MI400@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: 2 interesting projects...
> 
> Tim, you are doing this in C ?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Tim McCarthy [SMTP:TimM@softwarejungle.com]
> > Sent:       Wednesday, February 02, 2000 1:16 PM
> > To: 'MI400@midrange.com'
> > Subject:    RE: 2 interesting projects...
> > 
> > > As for PGP on AS/400, I'd love to see the code that cooks up huge
> > > prime
> > > numbers for the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman public keys.  No matter if
> it's
> > > "C"
> > > or MI, I'll bet the prime number cook-up is slow.
> >     The RSAREF part I have working. Generating a key pair with 508
> > bit keys takes ~40 secs on a 170 server doing nothing. Sealing a
> small
> > file ~1k takes ~50 secs.
> > 
> > 
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