Re: decryption outputs to stdout before verification

Bruce Walzer via Gnupg-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 06:52:24PM -0500, Tennyson T Bardwell via Gnupg-users wrote:
[...]
> I think that I misunderstood the gaps between integrity, authentication,
> and signing (tamper-detection vs knowledge of some key vs
> non-repudiation).

I think that this is a lot simpler than you are assuming. You get authentication and integrity from signing the message/file. You just get integrity from things like OCFB-MDC (SEIP). The stuff about authenticated encryption is just a figure of speech in this case. Does my article help?

https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:pgpauth

Bruce
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