No Hidden-Recipient support in GPGME?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Aug 28 14:48:06 CEST 2008


On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:26, buanzo at buanzo.com.ar said:

> for HTTP Bootstrapping issue, and we discovered that --throw-keyids would be great as a simple
> counter-measure against traffic analysis.

But is has the drawback of making decryption slow if you have several
secret keys.  It needs to do trial decryptiopn for all of them.  With
just one encryption key in your secring, it does not matter of course.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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