[52084] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP reveals the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Pettitt)
Wed Mar 13 15:24:58 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:26:44 -0800
To: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
From: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, savron@world-net.sct.fr
At 12:28 AM 3/13/96 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
> So long as you have your corespondent's published Public
>Key, you can use it to do a one-time transmission of a private Public Key
>to be used to do anonymous (ie: Not Linked to your Public Identity)
>transmissions to you.
>
>
>
Yes but even a non pub keyid leaks information usefull for traffic analysis.
John Pettitt, jpp@software.net
VP Engineering, CyberSource Corporation, 415 473 3065
"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man
doesn't have to experience it." - Max Frisch
PGP Key available at:
http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0xB7AA3705
