[Announce] Attack against OpenPGP encryption

C. D. Rok cedar at 3web.net
Fri Feb 11 18:18:14 CET 2005


Johan Wevers wrote:

> So the solution is changing the way that errors are reported back to the
> sender in this case?

It appears to me that the solution is re-exaimnation of the protocol
on a more fundamenatl level. In symetric systems, the correspondent
is never an adversary, while in public key systems the assumption must
be made that the correspondent is *always* also an adversary.
CD Rok




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