PGP 5.0 MessageID

Andreas Bogk (ich@andreas.org)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 21:31:01 +0100

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Hi!

Does anybody know what purpose the MessageID in the PGP 5.0 ASCII armoring
serves, and why I wouldn't want to turn it off immediately, since it
leaks state from the random number generator used for generating the
session key?

Andreas

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