From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 22:27:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D17916A41C for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:27:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4254943D1D for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:27:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j5EMQxkD083891; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:26:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:26:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Brian Henning Message-ID: <20050614222659.GG93330@dan.emsphone.com> References: <47f8d931050614145288f9333@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47f8d931050614145288f9333@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: OT: GnuPG X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:27:00 -0000 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