1996-08-31 - PGP Comments Considered Occasionally Harmful Re: Pronto making a comment

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From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
To: “Michael T. Babcock” <mbabcock@tyenet.com>
Message Hash: 96a5980854f9cf132ed4c4fda289ac4d3b98c3d9ebd8c77fc976621d422dec7d
Message ID: <199608310847.BAA00304@toad.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-31 10:42:25 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:42:25 +0800

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From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:42:25 +0800
To: "Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock@tyenet.com>
Subject: PGP Comments Considered Occasionally Harmful Re: Pronto making a comment
Message-ID: <199608310847.BAA00304@toad.com>
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To cypherpunks, Re: mbabcock and Jim Ray's discussion.

>> How did you get Pronto to do a comment?
>
>I added a "comment=" in my config.txt ;) ... the old fashionned way.
...
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>Version: 2.6.3i
>Charset: ascii
>Comment: http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock/PGP/

Note that the comment makes traffic analysis much easier.
Sure, you can send your mail through five different remailers,
but if each layer of PGP has your home page URL or some other
distinctive Comment:, it's traceable.

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Version: 2.7.1
Comment: PGP available outside U.S.A. at ftp.ox.ac.uk

iQBVAwUBMif6ZvthU5e7emAFAQHh2AH/R4KY4MPQBjF2XCeeFCY5XPVQTePvPwT6
5MAAzyTL/8RwU0Ul7G7rQgeb/08CxqetC0Ry22AhMV8uEV6DgTbcLg==
=4Ttw
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