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Message-ID: <20120201231302.GA9659@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 03:13:02 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: distros & linux-distros embargo period and message format

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:59:34PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> While you're editing the wiki... it's probably obvious to everyone,
> but perhaps not, so a short sentence about the Subject header not
> being encrypted and thus visible to e.g. mail server admins might be a
> good idea.

Added:

"except that headers, including From and Subject, are not encrypted, so
you may want to avoid including security sensitive information in the
Subject."

Alexander

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