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Re: mdc

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:13:56 -0400, vedaal  said:

> how does using MDC protect the sender/recipient more than the signing and
> encrypting of the message?

Many users don't bother to check the signature, there are a lot of
situations where you do not wnat to sign a message: think Mixmaster.

And an MDC is the cleaner and correct solution to fix a flaw in the
encryption layer.

Ciao,

  Werner

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