From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:35:44 +0800
To: bryce@digicash.com
Subject: Re: Bold Assertion: there are no Men in the Middle
In-Reply-To: <199604290915.LAA04182@digicash.com>
Message-ID: <199604292343.SAA21804@homeport.org>
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	Eavesdropping prevention is important, and is an important
feature that PGP provides.  If a MITM can subvert the privacy, but not
the authenticity of the data, PGP becomes pretty pathetic.

Adam

bryce@digicash.com wrote:

| I still have a strong intuition that I could keep my cash if
| I made such a proposal and gave it a few simple stipulations
| (such as that the attacker would have to forge important
| material in the victim's name rather than just use the
| attack to eavesdrop...).  The successful attacker would


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