From: norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 15:15:49 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Commercial PGP: Verifying Trustworthiness
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peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu> says:
> pgp and viacrypt will always generate differnt outputs: pgp
> adds some pseudo-random stuff to the start of the file it is
> encrypting to ensure that a file encrypts differently each time. 
This means that I am trusting the "pseudo-random" stuff not to be
some secrets that PGP has read from my disk. The only benefit
that I see to the pseudo-random stuff is to send the same message
to several people without revealing the fact that the messages are
the same except to those that can decode the messages.