Adding padding to PGP files
Anonymous
Nobody at eniac.ac.siue.edu
Thu Feb 2 20:47:02 PST 1995
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 08:48:49 -0800
> From: Hal <hfinney at shell.portal.com>
>
> It only works on binary ".pgp" public-key encrypted files (not ascii armored
> files). So there would be some work needed to make it a really useful tool.
>
> Hal
I just tried adding random characters at the end of a pgp ascii
armoured message. I had to cut out the checksum, but pgp was able to
decrypt the message just fine. So a very simple program (ideally with
a strong source of random numbers) should be able to pad ascii
armoured files.
Noyb
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