PGP Comments Considered Occasionally Harmful Re: Pronto making a comment

[Adamsc]

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 01:44:15 -0700, stewarts at ix.netcom.com wrote:

>>> 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.

OTOH, a signature has your distinctive key-id anyway.

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