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Re: Cypherpunk Certification Authority
At 01:53 AM 11/26/95 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>You'd rather sign before encryption??
>
>Doesn't that give you "known plain-text" to attack?
The signature is not known unless the whole message being signed is
known.
And any encryption scheme that is vulnerable to known plaintext attack
where only a part of the message is known, is worthless anyway.
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