On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:
Why are PGP so keen to hand huffman encode everything?
Presumably to increase security; longer identifiers give an attacker more
known -- or easily guessed -- plaintext. While I consider a brute-force
attack on PGP infeasible for a long time I'm not sure that we should be
giving away more known plaintext than we need to.
(Excuse my ignorance if we're not talking about the same identifiers; I
haven't read the PGP format documentation for some time).
Mark
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