On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Tom Ritter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25 October 2013 03:37, Thomas Oberndörfer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> In order to do so, we need to be able to encrypt a payload (being a file
>>> or a json blob) with multiple's recipient keys but without
>>> leaving/leaking the KeyID .
>>
>> With an OpenPGP message this can only be done by creating a separate
>> message for each recipient. But you might want to avoid to symmetrically
>> encrypt the payload multiple times. There is currently no high level API for
>> this scenario, but I think it's doable.
>
>
> Couldn't you just throw the KeyID?  That is, specify it as all 0's
> (like gpg's --throw-keyid option).  this won't kind the fact that it's
> encrypted to 6 keys, but it will hide what those Key IDs are.

This isn't very secure: the message still amounts to a proof that it
was encrypted for the given recipients.  If you suspect who they are,
now you know for sure.

Geoffrey
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