Re: [MacPerl] PGP

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 5:53 12/31/96, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>oszarazi@cuug.ab.ca writes:
>>On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone had any luck using MacPGP with MacPerl, with the PGP module or
>>> otherwise?
>>
>>I'm not sure ... but I think I saw it (the algorithm) in someone's
>>signature on this list.  Either that or the sig had a factoring
>>alogrithm (in perl) in it.
>
>That signature contains only the much discussed public key (RSA) part of PGP,
>but in practice, the crypto system also needs a less frequently discussed
>private key (IDEA) algorithm. Besides, the RSA signature relies on dc, which
>makes it of limited use on a Mac.

The PGP program is required, not just a set of algorithms.  Well, I suppose
someone could rewrite the whole darned thing with key maintenance and
everything ... well, I have some MacPGP AppleScripts, I haven't used
AppleEvents much ... so here's my chance.  Oy.

>Unfortunately, I don't have a much better answer for Chris myself; I'm
>fairly sure that an Unix PGP module won't interface with MacPGP, and
>I don't know anything about what AppleEvents MacPGP supports.

Where is the best tutorial on using MacPerl and AppleEvents?

Thanks,

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Chris Nandor                                              pudge@pobox.com
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