From: Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl <rrothenb@ic.sunysb.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 00:20:26 PST
To: Nobody@eniac.ac.siue.edu (Anonymous)
Subject: Re: Adding padding to PGP files
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> 
> > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 08:48:49 -0800
> > From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
> > 
> > It only works on binary ".pgp" public-key encrypted files (not ascii armored
> > files).  So there would be some work needed to make it a really useful tool.
> > 
> > Hal
> 
>   I just tried adding random characters at the end of a pgp ascii
> armoured message.  I had to cut out the checksum, but pgp was able to
> decrypt the message just fine.  So a very simple program (ideally with
> a strong source of random numbers) should be able to pad ascii
> armoured files.

Probably can calculate a new checksum too... or binary PGP, add junk
and mime/uu/xx-encode....?

Rob