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Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Jun 23 14:56:40 2001
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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:54:01 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>, Don Davis <dtd@world.std.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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"Jeffrey I. Schiller" wrote:
> Btw. I don't believe S/MIME has timestamps in its signature
> format. PGP does. PGP also implements a "for her eyes only" feature
> that only permits an encrypted message to be displayed, but not saved
> in a file. Now of course a sufficiently clever person can circumvent
> this protection. I am now wondering how hard it would be to circumvent
> this feature *and* keep the original message signature (of course if
> you have the PGP source code, you can do this).
Ummm ... and who would we expect _not_ to have the source?
Cheers,
Ben.
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