[Full-disclosure] selling office 2003 & 2007 0day
James Matthews
nytrokiss at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 16:53:14 BST 2007
If he got a dollar every time someone says he has 0-days to sell we would be
bossing bill gates around (as if we aren't now =)! )
On 7/17/07, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:12:04 +0200, Pieter de Boer said:
>
> > Ohwell, signing with public keys is pointless anyhow.. *whistles
> innocently*
>
> Signing it with the *recipient's* public key can be somewhat interesting,
> as
> it results in a signature that only the recipient can identify - if
> anybody
> else tries to verify it, they can't, which results in a
> mostly-repudiatable
> signature.
>
> Of course, the *usual* use case is to either:
>
> *encrypt* with the recipients public key (so only their private key can
> decrypt
> it), and then sign the whole thing with your private key (so they can
> verify
> you did it by using your public key). This results in something that
> anybody
> can verify you sent, but only the recipient can read. or...
>
> Sign with your private key, then encrypt with their public key - at that
> point
> only the recipient can decode it. In addition, only the recipient can see
> the
> (now-decoded) signature and verify it.
>
>
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