[48744] in Cypherpunks
Re: Lotus Notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Tue Jan 30 20:30:08 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:13:44 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199601300743.XAA03525@netcom6.netcom.com> from "Bill Frantz" at Jan 29, 96 11:46:25 pm
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Bill Frantz writes:
> 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.
I don't understand. Are you saying that there's a special benefit to doing
superencryption (GAK encryption over non-GAK encryption) when the GAK layer
is Lotus Notes ?
Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
