crypto flaw in secure mail standards

Ian BROWN I.Brown at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Mon Jun 25 06:38:11 EDT 2001


>Forward secrecy is arguably a more important property of mail to have than
>authentication, and is much easier to build properly, since it doesn't get
>into the issues of identity. Unfortunately, none of the current mail
>standards support it at all.

A (very-slow-moving) Internet draft that I've been working on with Ben Laurie 
and Adam Back to do this for OpenPGP:

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/I.Brown/openpgp-pfs.txt
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