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Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)
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In article <[email protected]>,
Rich Graves <[email protected]> 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.
That line can be clipped off by everyone, without even so much as a peep
from PGP. Perhaps a better solution would be to copy the To: and
Newsgroups: headers into the body of the message?
Galactus
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eGt+KpNKijXuTdXRTvdVV/Wxahk2/3TgoA0U40CZmm1s1Ckk506T1dkGkt19UsvO
/5sBQ/eKUhY=
=S/aM
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