17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 01:53 AM 11/26/95 -0800, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
You'd rather sign before encryption??
Doesn't that give you "known plain-text" to attack?
The signature is not known unless the whole message being signed is known. And any encryption scheme that is vulnerable to known plaintext attack where only a part of the message is known, is worthless anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com