OpenPGP/GnuPG chosen ciphertext cryptography attack
Published:		17.03.2005
Source:		BUGTRAQ
SecurityVulns ID:		4582
Type:		remote
Level:		5/10
Description:		With CFB mode encryption attacker can recover part of the plaintext if 2 first bytes of the message block are known.

Affected:

GNUPG : gnupg 1.2

Original document

MANDRAKE, MDKSA-2005:057 - Updated gnupg packages fix vulnerability (17.03.2005)

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