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Re: PGP Comment feature weakens remailer security

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PGP Comment feature weakens remailer security
From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:51:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: [email protected]'s message of 8 Nov 199500:11:27 -0500
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

 bill.stewart> So, for safety, either turn off PGP comments before
 bill.stewart> using it with remailers, or wipe out the comments by
 bill.stewart> hand before each layer of encryption (easy to do with
 bill.stewart> GUI-based systems like Private Idaho; I don't know if
 bill.stewart> premail lets you do this or not.)

Incidentally, Mailcrypt's remailer support strips the comment field
after each encryption, and has done so since version 3.2.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface

iQCVAwUBMKEmVHr7ES8bepftAQEPSgP9FJYeKUSZKyFN/VWIwLjKIaDVzPtzyqHR
tbj1UqbDl1trrKCoV6uud5qfK/FQwqQylnv1YsYNIVPPav66ImUvgSaXUMvZJBvC
8vinQI66s3M1PBJ8VIaLuVtay826JDazGHEexHpDLwNVGLdJq0RrNLVr2H9oLA8g
5aE9MHVfAcM=
=MdHQ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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