[Cryptography] Does PGP use sign-then-encrypt or encrypt-then-sign?

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 19:01:30 EST 2014


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can do signatures directly with symmetric primitives like hashes.
>
> See Lamport signatures
>
Yes, I'm aware of Lamport/Merkle signatures. However these systems still
use public and private keys, even if they're composed of symmetric
primitives.

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Tony Arcieri
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