Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-18 Thread Helder Ribeiro
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Richard Brooks r...@acm.org wrote: From Guardian QA with Snowden http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Azarkevich
Why settle for strong enough? Use the strongest options you have at your disposal. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Helder Ribeiro hel...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Richard Brooks r...@acm.org wrote: From Guardian QA with Snowden

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:18:38PM +0300, Michael Azarkevich wrote: Why settle for strong enough? Use the strongest options you have at your disposal. One-time pads are provably strong if done right, but come with considerable usability disadvantages (but are potentially worth it if people's

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-18 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/17/2013 10:53 PM, Eric S Johnson wrote: Agreed. Even my 13-year-old's using it. I do wish something as easy existed for MS Outlook users. Symantec Desktop Encryption works well and is much more powerful but is also much harder to use

[liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-17 Thread Richard Brooks
From Guardian QA with Snowden http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard encryption? Answer: Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-17 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Jun 2013, at 22:23, Richard Brooks wrote: From Guardian QA with Snowden http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-17 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: I wonder what encryption software would look like if Apple made it as friendly as their products While not from Apple, I think the latest version of GPGtools for the Mac (https://gpgtools.org) is quite nice.

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-17 Thread Eric S Johnson
Apple already builds in encryption into many of its products: FileVault disk encryption, Mail.app S/MIME support, iMessage Facetime end-to-end encryption, and iCloud keychain are a few examples. File Vault 2, the whole-hard-disk-encryption solution built in to Mac OS 10.7 and up, is

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-17 Thread Eric S Johnson
I wonder what encryption software would look like if Apple made it as friendly as their products While not from Apple, I think the latest version of GPGtools for the Mac (https://gpgtools.org) is quite nice. Agreed. Even my 13-year-old's using it. I do wish something as easy existed