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From article <1992Dec11.030807.29118@shearson.com>, by pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger):
>>Why does PGP has those ugly lines "----BEGIN PGP...."
>>and so on? PGP-2.1 is much better than PGP-2.0. Let's
>>make it really good now -  GET RID OF THOSE BETRAYING
>>TAGS! NOW!
> 
> I guess you never read the docs. Those "betraying tags" have a purpose
> -- they allow the system to automatically find the beginning and end
> of messages. 

I guess you
	a) are deprived of sense of humor;
	b) have too little experience with real crypto...

> You can feed mail messages into PGP without even
> stripping the headers. 

Ge, thanks for explaining! And I was sure they are there
just to attract feds' attention... Oh, my...

> Its all very well engineered, and the feds can
> tell you are using PGP anyway by looking at the magic numbers in the
> Radix 64 text. 

And what sense would a hexadecimal number prepended to an
encrypted (hexadecimal) data make to an eavesdropper?

> I don't think there is any point in stripping them,
> since it adds no security for you and will make the program a lot more
> inconvenient to use. 

I do, since it can increase security via making it 
"unprovable" that the message is encrypted/created
my PGP. Yes, this will prohibit one from simply
piping the whole message through PGP and 
getting plaintext. Well, it depends
on which concern is bigger - to
have to strip head/tail off
the arriving e-mail,  or
fear to get caught with 
using "guerilla" PGP... (:-)

> Its inconvenient enough already....

It depends. For me, PGP-2.1 is perfectly convenient and nice.
If only it didn't advertise itself so loudly with "---BEGIN"... (:-)

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Regards,
Uri.		uri@watson.ibm.com
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