Problems decrypting a mail with my openpgp card
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Thu May 18 09:27:10 CEST 2006
zvrba at globalnet.hr writes:
> Why not? Authentication is the same as encryption with private key which
> amounts to decryption of the original content ;) (modulo padding.) I think
> that it should be possible to hack some program which would use
I can't remember whether the card checks for correct padding in
internal_authenticate. If it does not, you may indeed use it to
decrypt a message.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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