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Re: Anybody know details about Schneier's "flaw"?

2002-08-14 07:54:21

john(_dot_)dlugosz(_at_)kodak(_dot_)com writes:

Does anybody know more about this?  Can a minor improvement to the new 
-bis draft fix it?

a) this only works if you do NOT compress your messages before you encrypt.
b) this only works if you do NOT sign the message AND you do NOT use an MDC

--John

-derek

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