1996-03-14 - Re: PGP reveals the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg

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From: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
To: “Robert A. Rosenberg” <hal9001@panix.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-03-14 01:30:21 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:30:21 +0800

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From: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:30:21 +0800
To: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Subject: Re: PGP reveals  the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960313172644.012b0ff4@mail.software.net>
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At 12:28 AM 3/13/96 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:

>                  So long as you have your corespondent's published Public
>Key, you can use it to do a one-time transmission of a private Public Key
>to be used to do anonymous (ie: Not Linked to your Public Identity)
>transmissions to you.
>
>
>

Yes but even a non pub keyid leaks information usefull for traffic analysis.
John Pettitt, jpp@software.net
VP Engineering, CyberSource Corporation, 415 473 3065
 "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man
  doesn't have to experience it." - Max Frisch

PGP Key available at:
http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0xB7AA3705






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