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



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On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Rich Graves wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 JAN 1996 02:04:13 -0800 
> From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>
> Newgroups: netcraft.cypherpunks, alt.security.pgp, sci.crypt,
>     mail.cypherpunks
> Subject: Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> -rich

PGP totally ignores the Comment: line. How do you think this helps?
(Note: references are signed with the rest of the message ;-)

Guy Geens <[email protected]>: Ph.D. student at ELIS -- TFCG / IMEC 
Atypical civil engineer -- And proud of it!
Home Page: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/ELISgroups/tfcg/staff/gg.html 
finger [email protected] for PGP public keys (or use keyserver) 


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