From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 03:30:01 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Cypherpunk Certification Authority
Message-ID: <199511261922.LAA16753@blob.best.net>
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At 01:53 AM 11/26/95 -0800, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
>You'd rather sign before encryption??
>
>Doesn't that give you "known plain-text" to attack?

The signature is not known unless the whole message being signed is
known.

And any encryption scheme that is vulnerable to known plaintext attack
where only a part of the message is known, is worthless anyway.


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