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Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian BROWN)
Mon Jun 25 11:37:03 2001
To: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
Cc: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>,
Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>, Don Davis <dtd@world.std.com>,
Crypto List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:41:58 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106221435560.9644-100000@ultra.gawth.com>
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:38:11 +0100
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From: Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
>Forward secrecy is arguably a more important property of mail to have than
>authentication, and is much easier to build properly, since it doesn't get
>into the issues of identity. Unfortunately, none of the current mail
>standards support it at all.
A (very-slow-moving) Internet draft that I've been working on with Ben Laurie
and Adam Back to do this for OpenPGP:
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/I.Brown/openpgp-pfs.txt
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