Self Decrypting Archives

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Fri Jun 20 16:38:08 2003


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:49:55 -0500, John B said:

> and do it right and tell them they need to quit being so lazy. It's just 
> plain ridiculous to have a paid-for version of PGP on a windows machine, and 
> just use it for SDA's, it's just simply ludicrous.

Furthermore, you have to pay for the extra traffic created by sending
the decryption codealong with the "encrypted" data.  And due to the
code prefix it is trivial to spot out such message and modify themon
the fly.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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