1996-03-11 - Re: PGP reveals the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: savron@world-net.sct.fr
Message Hash: 31b548b36f954f188e96972ca3a4f714059f2212c16715584798a92cf3914eae
Message ID: <199603111505.KAA02090@homeport.org>
Reply To: <199603110740.IAA06254@storm.certix.fr>
UTC Datetime: 1996-03-11 15:25:54 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:25:54 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:25:54 +0800
To: savron@world-net.sct.fr
Subject: Re: PGP reveals  the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg
In-Reply-To: <199603110740.IAA06254@storm.certix.fr>
Message-ID: <199603111505.KAA02090@homeport.org>
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savron@world-net.sct.fr wrote:

| The problem is carried along when you encrypt a message for multiple  
| recipients , you get the key IDs of all the recipients and same 
| problem as above .  I think something like 'blind email copy' should 
| be used , because the recipients don't have to know the identity of 
| each other .
| 
| Comments from long time PGPer  will be welcome

	If someone is concerned about this, they can create a new
anonymous key, and use that for their correspondance.  They can sign &
encrypt it to the correspondants they want to use that key.  Keys are
cheap.  Everyone should have a bunch.

Adam

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume






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