[43117] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP Comment feature weakens remailer security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick J. LoPresti)
Wed Nov 8 17:21:35 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:51:28 -0500
From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@catfish.lcs.mit.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com's message of 8 Nov 1995
00:11:27 -0500
Reply-To: patl@lcs.mit.edu
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bill.stewart> So, for safety, either turn off PGP comments before
bill.stewart> using it with remailers, or wipe out the comments by
bill.stewart> hand before each layer of encryption (easy to do with
bill.stewart> GUI-based systems like Private Idaho; I don't know if
bill.stewart> premail lets you do this or not.)
Incidentally, Mailcrypt's remailer support strips the comment field
after each encryption, and has done so since version 3.2.
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Version: 2.6.2
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface
iQCVAwUBMKEmVHr7ES8bepftAQEPSgP9FJYeKUSZKyFN/VWIwLjKIaDVzPtzyqHR
tbj1UqbDl1trrKCoV6uud5qfK/FQwqQylnv1YsYNIVPPav66ImUvgSaXUMvZJBvC
8vinQI66s3M1PBJ8VIaLuVtay826JDazGHEexHpDLwNVGLdJq0RrNLVr2H9oLA8g
5aE9MHVfAcM=
=MdHQ
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