wanted dead or alive: pgp5.5 key pair

Lutz Donnerhacke lutz at taranis.iks-jena.de
Wed Oct 22 03:45:24 PDT 1997



* Adam Back wrote:
>Enciphering minds want to find out how pgp5.0 reacts to this key :-)
>(The question is really does pgp5.0 encrypt to the CMR key).

Just returned from the source ... PGP 5.0 does encrypt to every so called
'message recovery key' mentioned in the public key self certificate option
if it is marked required or optional. If a key is missing, it fails encryting.
IIRC it does work on unhashed uncritical signature packets, too.







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