NODE a4b1e68fRe: Lotus Notes
frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:31:27 +0800
One other small advantage I can see to using Lotus's crippled encryption.
It disguises the fact that a message is actually (double) encrypted with
PGP. Attackers have to break the 40 bits before they see the PGP encrypted
data. A pecular kind of steganography. (If you leave off the PGP header
and trailer, it may be hard to determine which 40 bits are the correct
key.)
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NODE 716036d5Re: Lotus Notes
futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:49:31 +0800
Bill Frantz writes:
> One other small advantage I can see to using Lotus's crippled encryption.
> It disguises the fact that a message is actually (double) encrypted with
> PGP. Attackers have to break the 40 bits before they see the PGP encrypted
> data.
I don't understand. Are you saying that there's a special benefit to doing
superencryption (GAK encryption over non-GAK encryption) when the GAK layer
is Lotus Notes ?
Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>