PGP Comments Considered Occasionally Harmful Re: Pronto making a comment

stewarts at ix.netcom.com stewarts at ix.netcom.com
Sat Aug 31 03:42:25 PDT 1996


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To cypherpunks, Re: mbabcock and Jim Ray's discussion.

>> How did you get Pronto to do a comment?
>
>I added a "comment=" in my config.txt ;) ... the old fashionned way.
...
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>Version: 2.6.3i
>Charset: ascii
>Comment: http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock/PGP/

Note that the comment makes traffic analysis much easier.
Sure, you can send your mail through five different remailers,
but if each layer of PGP has your home page URL or some other
distinctive Comment:, it's traceable.

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