[47111] in Cypherpunks
Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guy Geens)
Fri Jan 12 22:04:02 1996
From: Guy Geens <ggeens@elis.rug.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:26:42 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960112020051.6769E-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
Apparently-To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Rich Graves wrote:
> Date: Fri, 12 JAN 1996 02:04:13 -0800
> From: Rich Graves <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
> Newgroups: netcraft.cypherpunks, alt.security.pgp, sci.crypt,
> mail.cypherpunks
> Subject: Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)
>
> An easy short-term partial solution would be to modify mailcrypt, bap, or
> whatever front end you use to automatically put the current date and (a
> shortened form of) the To: or Newsgroups: header into the PGP signature
> Comments: line.
>
> -rich
PGP totally ignores the Comment: line. How do you think this helps?
(Note: references are signed with the rest of the message ;-)
Guy Geens <guy.geens@elis.rug.ac.be>: Ph.D. student at ELIS -- TFCG / IMEC
Atypical civil engineer -- And proud of it!
Home Page: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/ELISgroups/tfcg/staff/gg.html
finger ggeens@elis.rug.ac.be for PGP public keys (or use keyserver)
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