From megalith!nobody@uunet.UU.NET Mon Apr 25 03:39:13 1994 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.5) id AA24519; Mon, 25 Apr 94 03:39:07 PDT Received: from uucp5.uu.net by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AAwndi12612; Mon, 25 Apr 94 06:39:04 -0400 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp5.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL ; Mon, 25 Apr 1994 06:39:06 -0400 Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16.20/w5, Dec 29 1993, 21:22:55) id <1b7f@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Mon, 25 Apr 94 04:12:18 EDT -0400 Return-Path: Sender: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: rknop@netcom.com (Robert Knop) Message-Number: 788 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce X-Newssoftware: CSAA NMS 1.2 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 04:12:16 -0400 (EDT) From: rknop@netcom.com (Robert Knop) (CSAA) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions) Subject: RIPEM 1.2a-0 Status: R TITLE RIPEM -- RSAREF-based Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail VERSION 1.2a-0, Amiga port AUTHOR Principal author of RIPEM is Mark Riordan (mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu). RSAREF 1.0 on which RIPEM is based is by RSA Data Security (rsaref-info@rsa.com). The Amiga version is ported and compiled by Robert Knop (rknop@netcom.com). DESCRIPTION RIPEM implements a filter to process messages as part of a public key (asymmetric) cryptography privacy-enhanced mail system. RIPEM is expected to be used primarily to encrypt and decrypt text to be embedded in electronic mail messages. However, it also has two "sign-only" modes in which an authentication check is added to the message, but no encryp- tion of the message itself takes place. RIPEM can also be used to generate RSA public keypairs. The techniques and data formats used by RIPEM are as compa- tible as possible with Privacy-Enhanced Mail Internet RFCs 1421-1424. However, there is no support for "certificates", so RIPEM is not really compatible with PEM as described in those documents. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS The Amiga port of RIPEM should run on all Amigas. It may not run with Workbench < 2.04, but then again, it might. The executable is about 90K, and it requires a fairly large amount of stack space (32K), and may have trouble running on 512K Amigas (but has not been tested on such systems). A separate 68030 version is included. AVAILABILITY Ripem is available on the Ripem FTP site ripem.msu.edu as file: /pub/crypt/ripem/binaries/ripem-amiga-1.2a.lha Under US Law, RIPEM may not be exported out of the United States or Canada. Anybody may ftp anonymously to the site to take a look at what is there, but only users in the USA and Canada willing to comply with export laws will be granted the ability to download certain files on the site. For more information on getting access, see the file /pub/crypt/ripem/GETTING_ACCESS on ripem.msu.edu. PRICE Free DISTRIBUTABILITY Freely distributable; RIPEM is composed of a combination of public domain and licenced code. RIPEM is licenced and unquestionably legal to distribute and use under U.S. Patent laws. -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA2@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu.