GPG PGP S/Mime vulnerability
Julia A. Case
julie@MageNet.com
Thu Aug 9 14:35:02 2001
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Quoting Anthony E. Greene (agreene@pobox.com):
> I think he means the From, To, Date, and Subject headers, all of which are
> known to the mail client at the time of composition. If mail clients
> inserted this data into the message before calling PGP, that would be an
> automated solution to the problem, assuming these headers had enough
> specific information to be of any help.
>=20
I'm still to sure this would work well, I mean do you require that the=20
From: address match one of the addresses in the signing key? The=20
previously indicated methods of making sure you don't sign ambigous mails=
=20
seems the better choice.
Julia
--=20
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iD8DBQE7coMX4HhEM0IT+S4RAvTxAJ0RsUrHyAWKNckgBhfavlryb9ZQjACfXJ+u
64kxRMIEf38v0QEVdeCkGZA=
=MJ7I
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