1996-01-13 - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)
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From: Guy Geens <ggeens@elis.rug.ac.be>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-13 02:52:51 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:52:51 PST
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From: Guy Geens <ggeens@elis.rug.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:52:51 PST
Subject: 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 <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
> 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 <guy.geens@elis.rug.ac.be>: 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 ggeens@elis.rug.ac.be for PGP public keys (or use keyserver)
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- 1996-01-03 (Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:09:58 +0800) - A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
- 1996-01-10 (Thu, 11 Jan 1996 05:26:59 +0800) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - david@sternlight.com (David Sternlight)
- 1996-01-10 (Wed, 10 Jan 96 15:04:45 PST) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - Philippe VIJGHEN <phv@bim.be>
- 1996-01-11 (Thu, 11 Jan 96 09:18:32 PST) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - Jeffrey Goldberg <cc047@Cranfield.ac.uk>
- 1996-01-13 (Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:52:41 PST) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - Rich Graves <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
- 1996-01-13 (Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:52:51 PST) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - Guy Geens <ggeens@elis.rug.ac.be>
- 1996-01-13 (Sun, 14 Jan 1996 03:46:30 +0800) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - David Mazieres <dm@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
- 1996-01-14 (Sun, 14 Jan 96 13:49:19 PST) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl (Arnoud “Galactus” Engelfriet)
- 1996-01-16 (Wed, 17 Jan 1996 04:10:39 +0800) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - ckey2@eng.ua.edu (Christopher R. Key)
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