PGP reveals the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg

Adam Shostack adam at lighthouse.homeport.org
Mon Mar 11 07:25:54 PST 1996


savron at world-net.sct.fr wrote:

| The problem is carried along when you encrypt a message for multiple  
| recipients , you get the key IDs of all the recipients and same 
| problem as above .  I think something like 'blind email copy' should 
| be used , because the recipients don't have to know the identity of 
| each other .
| 
| Comments from long time PGPer  will be welcome

	If someone is concerned about this, they can create a new
anonymous key, and use that for their correspondance.  They can sign &
encrypt it to the correspondants they want to use that key.  Keys are
cheap.  Everyone should have a bunch.

Adam

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