Re: small security glitches

2012-03-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/01/2012 07:44 PM, Post Carter wrote: > If Tom McCune simplified explanation isn't detailed enough, check out Bruce > Schneier's original paper describing the attack: > http://www.schneier.com/paper-pgp.html > > The idea is that the decrypted "gibberish" is the encrypted form of the > plaint

Re: small security glitches

2012-03-01 Thread Post Carter
If Tom McCune simplified explanation isn't detailed enough, check out Bruce Schneier's original paper describing the attack: http://www.schneier.com/paper-pgp.html   The idea is that the decrypted "gibberish" is the encrypted form of the plaintext the attacker inserted.  If the naive user re-send