Re: RFC1847 - encrypted as multipart

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Wed, 04 September 1996 23:58 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>, Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com>, ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: RFC1847 - encrypted as multipart
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sorry about that...I accidentally replied to an ancient message.
(and I even misspelled my name!)

Keith

> 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