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From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: StuffIt Files at Simtel20.arpa
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Date: 21 Apr 88 14:49:00 GMT
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>Speaking of StuffIt, the time seems right for a new version which includes
>a public key encription scheme and a utility to generate keys.  I could then
>generate a pair of keys, use StuffIt to compress, encript; then binhex it
>and upload it, listing the decoding key in the message header.

That might be nice, but those algorithms are EXPENSIVE.  If I remember
rightly, we would be talking about HOURS to encrypt/decrypt even moderately
sized files.  Large-scale DES requires hardware implementation.

>Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist)	pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu
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>GEnie:		W.POLLOCK
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