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Re: [Cryptography] Does PGP use sign-then-encrypt or
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerardus Hendricks)
Tue Jan 21 22:09:32 2014
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 04:07:27 +0100
From: Gerardus Hendricks <konfkukor@riseup.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 1/21/14 11:47 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> Verifying a signature is a fairly expensive operation, and one
> wonders if it, too, is subject to some kind of attack.
Well yes, but while decryption requires a private key mingling with the
ciphertext, verifying a signature can be done in the isolation of secrets.
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