Encrypted Web Pages?

Vlad "SATtva" Miller sattva at pgpru.com
Mon Dec 17 18:09:09 UTC 2007


Michael Holstein wrote on 17.12.2007 23:01:
> I'm not a mathematician, but it can't be wise to store multiple copies
> of the same plaintext encrypted by the same cipher using different keys
> .. much crypto has historically been broken that way.

As a side note: In the context of OpenPGP you have to encrypt the same
message (plaintext) with more than 65536 public keys in order to make
things somewhat more appropriate for an attacker. And even that's won't
help him much because of the PKCS padding.

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