Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)

[Bryce <wilcoxb@nag.cs.colorado.edu>]

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 An entity calling itself Rich Graves 
 <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU> allegedly wrote:
>
> An easy short-term partial solution would be to modify mailcrypt, bap, or
> whatever front end you use to automatically put the current date and (a
> shortened form of) the To: or Newsgroups: header into the PGP signature
> Comments: line. 
 

 I wrote:
> 
> A good idea, and one I was about to implement for BAP, but 
> doesn't PGP itself stick a timestamp into the signature?  
> When I verify a signature it says "verified, signed at 
> XXX time & date.".


Whoops!  I misunderstood.  The fix I am considering is putting
some information inside the *body* of the message, probably at
the end just before the signature.


Regards,

Bryce


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