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Re: message integrity checksum?
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Adam Back wrote:
> Gary Howland discussed PGP vulnerabilities at HIP97 I think. One of
> the vulnerabilities was that encrypted (but not signed) messages could
> be altered undetectably.
This vulnerability is commen to any system that is encrypted but not
signed. It is not a perculartity of PGP.
> Clearly one way to fix it is to use signatures.
Of cause.
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