From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:29:55 +0800
To: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
Subject: Re: Security of PGP if Secret Key Available?
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With the MD5 collisions, can it be shown that plaintext passphrases 
are more likely to map to certain hashes than others? (And hence IDEA 
key search space reduced?)

Just speculation.

Rob.

On  3 Jun 96 at 2:36, Robert A. Hayden wrote:

[..]
> However, I got to wondering about the security of PGP assuming somebody 
> trying to read my PGPed stuff has my 1024-bit secret key.  ie, if I have 
> it on my personal computer, and somebody gets my secret key, how much 
> less robust has PGP just become, and what are appropriate and reasonable 
> steps to take to protect this weakness?



 
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