27 Aug
1993
27 Aug
'93
8:27 p.m.
This means that I am trusting the "pseudo-random" stuff not to be some secrets that PGP has read from my disk.
trust? you could read the code, starting at about line 550 of crypto.c. of course, you have to trust your eyes, your editor (if you use one), and your operating system not to deceive you. (i think i've carried this too far.)
The only benefit that I see to the pseudo-random stuff is to send the same message to several people without revealing the fact that the messages are the same except to those that can decode the messages.
that is a big win, in my view, but the random prefix also also helps defeat chosen plaintext attacks, does it not? peter