Re: separation of signed and encrypted messages into free-standing signed messages -- revisited

David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk> Tue, 16 October 2001 04:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: separation of signed and encrypted messages into free-standing signed messages -- revisited
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vedaal wrote:
> is there any way to separate a message that was signed and encrypted
> to a dh key, into a free-standing verifiable signed message?

If-and-only-if the private encryption key is known, yes. This is no
different to 'sign and RSA-encrypt'.

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