PGP Comment feature weakens remailer security

[NetSurfer]

On Tue, 7 Nov 1995 anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com wrote:

> to protect the privacy of communications.  PGP can bite you.
> The PGP comment feature lets you stick one (or more?) lines of comment
> into your encrypted messages, after the Version: line but before the
> encrypted message body.  If you use the PGP comment feature to say something

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> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: 2.7.1
> Comment: PGP available outside U.S.A. at ftp.ox.ac.uk
> 

You are using Viacrypt PGP, which has a release out which fixes the 
comment "feature" - contact them for an upgrade.

This was fixed in the freeware version some time ago as well.

-NetSurfer

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