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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