At 10:40 PM +0100 7/8/98, Adam Back wrote:
The other thing which I raised was MACs (or MDCs) to prevent against
Gary Howlands attack first discussed at HIP97. PGP made statements
about fixing it back then.
Now I am not particularly arguing that the necessary changes go into
this version, because it is rather late in the day and it needs some
careful thought, however it would be most nice if implementations of
OpenPGP 1.0 could cope with OpenPGP 2.0 messages which did contain
MACs without falling over.
Oh, yes, Adam. There hadn't been much discussion. It slipped past me.
Jon, is Adam's description sufficient for you to write something for -06?
How much heartache does adding this cause implementors (and if it does, can
you really afford not to deal with it)?
john noerenberg
jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
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