1994-03-06 - Stealth PGP

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-03-06 06:01:23 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 5 Mar 94 22:01:23 PST

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 94 22:01:23 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Stealth PGP
In-Reply-To: <199403052203.OAA21880@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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>However it doesn't do anything special about disguising the
>encrypted session key.  

And as Hal and I have been discussing, that's not at all an obvious
problem.  A filter for PGP messages cannot make them completely random
for all the reasons presented.  The session keys must be generated
differently if the encrypted form if them is to have a flat
distribution.

To wit, PGP itself must change in order to make a random PGP output
format.

Eric





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