[48607] in Cypherpunks
Re: Lotus Notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jan 30 02:48:57 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:46:25 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
One other small advantage I can see to using Lotus's crippled encryption.
It disguises the fact that a message is actually (double) encrypted with
PGP. Attackers have to break the 40 bits before they see the PGP encrypted
data. A pecular kind of steganography. (If you leave off the PGP header
and trailer, it may be hard to determine which 40 bits are the correct
key.)
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