Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)

17 Dec 2003

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On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Rich Graves wrote:
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Date: Fri, 12 JAN 1996 02:04:13 -0800 
From: Rich Graves <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
Newgroups: netcraft.cypherpunks, alt.security.pgp, sci.crypt,
    mail.cypherpunks
Subject: Re: A weakness in PGP signatures, and a suggested solution (long)
An easy short-term partial solution would be to modify mailcrypt, bap, or
whatever front end you use to automatically put the current date and (a
shortened form of) the To: or Newsgroups: header into the PGP signature
Comments: line.
-rich
PGP totally ignores the Comment: line. How do you think this helps?
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