From: Nobody@eniac.ac.siue.edu (Anonymous)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 20:47:02 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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.

  Noyb