1996-01-14 - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)
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From: galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl (Arnoud “Galactus” Engelfriet)
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From: galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 13:49:19 PST
Subject: Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)
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In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.960112020051.6769E-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>,
Rich Graves <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> An easy short-term partial solution would be to modify mailcrypt, bap, or
> whatever front end you use to automatically put the current date and (a
> shortened form of) the To: or Newsgroups: header into the PGP signature
> Comments: line.
That line can be clipped off by everyone, without even so much as a peep
from PGP. Perhaps a better solution would be to copy the To: and
Newsgroups: headers into the body of the message?
Galactus
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- 1996-01-10 (Thu, 11 Jan 1996 05:26:59 +0800) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - david@sternlight.com (David Sternlight)
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- 1996-01-13 (Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:52:41 PST) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - Rich Graves <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
- 1996-01-13 (Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:52:51 PST) - Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long) - Guy Geens <ggeens@elis.rug.ac.be>
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