Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Peter Gutmann
Marsh Ray ma...@extendedsubset.com writes: Perhaps someone who knows German can better interpret it. The government was asked are encrypted communications creating any difficulties for law enforcement in terms of pursuing criminals and terrorists?. The government replied no, not really, so

Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:19:33AM -0700, Jon Callas wrote: My money would be on a combination of traffic analysis and targeted malware. We know that the Germans have been pioneering using targeted malware against Skype. Once you've done that, you can pick apart anything else. Just a simple

Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Peter Maxwell
On 26 May 2012 06:57, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org writes: Which is not a surprise given that many SSH users believe that ssh automagically make their root account save and continue to use their lame passwords instead of using PK based

Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On 05/26/2012 08:01 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: Marsh Ray ma...@extendedsubset.com writes: Perhaps someone who knows German can better interpret it. The government was asked are encrypted communications creating any difficulties for law enforcement in terms of pursuing criminals and