Cypherpunk Certification Authority

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Nov 26 11:30:01 PST 1995


At 01:53 AM 11/26/95 -0800, anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com wrote:
>You'd rather sign before encryption??
>
>Doesn't that give you "known plain-text" to attack?

The signature is not known unless the whole message being signed is
known.

And any encryption scheme that is vulnerable to known plaintext attack
where only a part of the message is known, is worthless anyway.


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