[51938] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP reveals the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Mar 11 10:05:05 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: savron@world-net.sct.fr
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:05:51 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603110740.IAA06254@storm.certix.fr> from "savron@world-net.sct.fr" at Mar 11, 96 07:25:59 am
savron@world-net.sct.fr wrote:
| The problem is carried along when you encrypt a message for multiple
| recipients , you get the key IDs of all the recipients and same
| problem as above . I think something like 'blind email copy' should
| be used , because the recipients don't have to know the identity of
| each other .
|
| Comments from long time PGPer will be welcome
If someone is concerned about this, they can create a new
anonymous key, and use that for their correspondance. They can sign &
encrypt it to the correspondants they want to use that key. Keys are
cheap. Everyone should have a bunch.
Adam
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