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Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP

Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> Wed, 19 March 2014 21:41 UTC

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:41:18 -0400
From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 02:16:16PM -0700, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> wrote:
> > What's being leaked by compression? Really, I don't get it.
> 
> Some people like a demonstration.
> 
> Consider that I'm going to cast one of two ballots in a secret ballot
> election. The ballots are just permutations of eachother so they are
> the same size.
> 
> https://people.xiph.org/~greg/ballot.1
> https://people.xiph.org/~greg/ballot.2
> 
> I encrypt my secret ballot to the election officials with the public
> key at https://people.xiph.org/~greg/openpgp_testpubkey.asc
> 
> using the command:
> gpg -ear 9C28FC94 --compress-algo ZIP --compress-level 9 ballot.X
> (just being explicit for consistency sake, using GPG 1.4.16 in Fedora
> 19)
> 
> And I get the encrypted result of
> https://people.xiph.org/~greg/ballot.secret.asc
> 
> Which ballot did I cast?   Anyone?

After realizing that I needed to account for the size of the "Version:"
string I got the exact same size as your secret for ballot.1, so I'm
guessing that was your vote.

Am I right?

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