CTC
Anand Kumria
wildfire at progsoc.uts.edu.au
Sat Feb 21 03:56:40 CET 1998
Seen on comp.security.pgp.announce:
CTC is PGP-compatible Freeware. It now offers PGP5.5
interoperability all ciphers (DSA, DH, 3DES, CAST5 and SHA-1).
It is released under the GPL and allows commerical use.
For more details see:-
http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/ctc/
Ian Miller <Ian_Miller at bifroest.demon.co.uk>
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Since it is under the GPL it should be possible to grab things they done
nicely. Perhaps the PRNG? I've found G10's PRNG to be pretty slow (>60
mins to generate a 2K key on my 486).
Perhaps CTC and G10 can be successfully merged? I was just thinking about
pulling the hashing functions that G10 has into a library (say libhash).
Thoughts?
Anand.
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