[plug] Encryption

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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> Since someone on the mailing list appears to make a point in 
> their messages, of
> saying that they are encrypted (? I can read them, without
decryption?)

Are you confusing encryption with authentication?  Speaking for myself
I PGP sign most of my messages so people can know they are really from
me, but don't encrypt unless what I am sending is truly confidential.

> A group of scientists working for the National Research Institute
for 
> Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam today said they've
broken 
> the RSA-155 security code used to protect zillions of daily Internet

> transactions, including credit cards.

But that doesn't mean they have decrypted the zillions of daily
transactions (or could do so), it simply means they have decrypted ONE
such transaction.

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