crypto flaw in secure mail standards

Don Davis dtd at world.std.com
Sat Jun 23 01:48:57 EDT 2001


> All current secure-mail standards specify, as their
> "high-security" option, a weak use of the public-key
> sign and encrypt operations. ...

i've received permission from usenix to release the
paper on saturday (6/23):

http://world.std.com/~dtd/sign_encrypt/sign_encrypt7.ps
http://world.std.com/~dtd/sign_encrypt/sign_encrypt7.html

				- don davis, boston
				  http://world.std.com/~dtd





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