[8908] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian BROWN)
Mon Jun 25 11:34:23 2001
To: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
Cc: Don Davis <dtd@world.std.com>,
Crypto List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>, Ned.Freed@innosoft.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:35:49 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106221421350.9644-100000@ultra.gawth.com>
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:30:38 +0100
Message-ID: <597.993465038@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
From: Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
>The right way to send encrypted mail is to
>create a mail message, encrypt it headers and all, and include that in a
>mail message of type multipart/alternative, with the alternative being a
>text message saying 'this mail is encrypted'.
Ned Freed suggested something along these lines on the OpenPGP working group
list in 1998, but I don't know if anyone has implemented it :(
http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg01941.html
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