PGP reveals the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg

[Chris McAuliffe]

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[To: matthew at itconsult.co.uk (Matthew Richardson)]
[cc: cypherpunks at toad.com]
[Subject: Re: PGP reveals the key ID of the recipient of encrypted msg ]
[In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 13 Mar 96 09:12:10 GMT.]
             <3146910b.90015235 at itconsult.co.uk> 

matthew at itconsult.co.uk (Matthew Richardson) came full circle with:
>On Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:28:48 -0500, "Robert A. Rosenberg"
><hal9001 at panix.com> wrote:

>>There is also the problem of knowing WHICH key to use (ie: Even when you
>>know the message is intended for you, you must do a test run with each of
>>your keys until one works).

>I believe that provided all your keys are in your secret keyring, PGP
>will automatically pick the correct one for you.

But PGP can only do this because the keyID is there in the encrypted
text, and the point of this discussion was to strip off the keyIDs so
that you couldn't tell who the message was being sent to any more...

Arrgh.

Chris McAuliffe <cmca at alpha.c2.org> (No, not that one.)

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