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At 12:01 PM 12/3/00 -0800, Bram Cohen wrote:
>A problem with including a public key with every plaintext message is that
>it isn't very discreet - actually looks kind of ugly in some peoples's
>email clients. This could be changed by making a header line saying
>something like X-accepts-crypto, and have other mailers only send their
>keys to addresses they've formerly gotten mail with that header line from.
One nice thing about Elliptic Curve crypto is that the keys are nice and
short.
This makes it much easier to use the whole key instead of PGP-like KeyIDs,
and makes it easier to do signatures that aren't aesthetically annoying.
Here's an example of a document signed by James Donald's Crypto Kong,
from his page at http://www.jim.com/jamesd/Kong/Kong.htm
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Example signed document.
--digsig
James A. Donald
6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
BSvaK4MOZ2HQvr15n12Wn//srJ0bGg0SBsjB0i7z
9DzVhXhT9dtOvXQsvNgW9fxxzbg1MahNdUf/jGDb
The first lines of mmencode is the key and the last two are the signature.
Kong has its problems (including being Windows-specific),
but it's an interesting experiment in crypto user interface.
(Also, there's a real question as to what version is what -
the web page says "1.1.2", the Download page says "1.1.1",
and the code I actually downloaded says "1.1.3", so I hope it's not a hoax.)
--digsig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
DBY838ylRbu3lT5qQ5kM6XI++JHR0NBZtaQ52Egs7Vq
KcdeXicUTIlSnilH+vKrYZJjNTTRlyOemCgX/z5M
4cko2RYx7R+ZRoVTBDDDu0TIrXfAwscgUjSH733Pw
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
