On 2/22/07, Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > If the system was designed for the real world, the encrypted message > > would, by default, consist of a binary data set, indistingushable from a > > random stream, until and unless decrypted using the recipient's private key. > > A real world system needs to know the key for decryption and not fall > back to a time consuming mode of trial decryption with all available > secret keys... > > OpenPGP is not designed to thwart traffic analysis. It has merely > some provisions to help such a system > Thanks Werner - we agree on the OpenPGP design. I'm only trying to point out that this is a serious limitation, more so now than at the time PGP was born (or OpenPGP was designed).
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