Adding padding to PGP files

Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl rrothenb at ic.sunysb.edu
Fri Feb 3 00:20:26 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.

Probably can calculate a new checksum too... or binary PGP, add junk
and mime/uu/xx-encode....?

Rob






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