Hi Oliver Sturm,
;)
On Saturday, August 26, 2000 at 1:28:28 AM you wrote:
> That's nonsense, sorry. The bug is only related to the ADK-technology
> in those PGP versions. That's a technology that enables, say, the boss
> of a company to create custom keys for his employees while retaining a
> second key (or backdoor) for himself. This (intended) functionality is
> somehow flawed, hence the vulnerability. This doesn't in any way at
> all effect the effectiveness of PGP encryption in any single-user
> day-to-day use. I'm citing the article from BUGTRAQ, which contains
> some links about the issue.
OK, I was obviously slightly mistaken on some parts of this.
It might actually be possible to read someone else's email exploiting
this bug. Still seems highly surrealistic to me, I just wanted to
follow up to correct my bold statement.
Oliver Sturm
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