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Re: Recipient-verifiable messages, was: forwarding an encrypted PGP message is useless

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 18 April 2002 20:00 UTC

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To: Hal Finney <hal@finney.org>
Cc: adam@cypherspace.org, ietf-openpgp@imc.org
Subject: Re: Recipient-verifiable messages, was: forwarding an encrypted PGP message is useless
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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:49:07 +0200
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:20:40 -0700, Hal Finney said:

> Actually I think PGP 2.X did have the ability to strip off one layer
> of PGP processing, so it could be used to turn a signed-and-encrypted
> message into a signed one.  It would not be cleartext signed, it would use

PGP/MIME provides a cleaner way to handle this

scnr,

  Werner

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