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Re: RFC1847 - encrypted as multipart

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Wed, 04 September 1996 20:24 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Cc: Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com>, ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu, moore@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: RFC1847 - encrypted as multipart
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> For encrypted, such separate processing isn't possible since the message
> is opaque.

Not necessarily.  If the message is encrypted with a symmetric cipher
and a session key, the session key can then be encoded using several
different public-key algorithms, according to the needs of each
recipient.  

Ketih

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