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Date:      Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:26:59 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Brian Henning <henninb@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OT: GnuPG
Message-ID:  <20050614222659.GG93330@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <47f8d931050614145288f9333@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <47f8d931050614145288f9333@mail.gmail.com>

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In the last episode (Jun 14), Brian Henning said:
> When I run gnupg using the same rsa key on the same input file I
> noticed that it returns different cipher text files as resuts. Both
> the cipher files decrypt to the same plain text file just fine. Can
> someone explain to my why that is the cipher text is different?

Probably either a timestamp or a random seed is encoded along with the
file, to make it difficult for a 3rd party to determine whether two
encrypted files came from the same plaintext.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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