Compatibility

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:

> Due to legal or due to technical reasons? I believe that most cryptographers
> believe that when you crack one algorithm you can probably also crack the

v3 RSA keys also for technical reasons.

> The difference here is that MS is not publishing its changes so any tool
> that wants to be compatible, like Samba, must reverse-engineer the changes.
> That is not the case with the photo-ID packets.

I have never seen a description of the Photo-ID, although NAI promised a
long time ago to send specs to the WG.  I had to do some reverse
engineering on that data packet too.

   Werner

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