On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Moti <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting read. > Mostly because the people behind this project. > http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/02/silent_circle_s_latest_app_democratizes_encryption_governments_won_t_be.html
No offense to folks like Mr. Zimmermann, but I'm very suspect of his claims. I still remember the antithesis of the claims reported at http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/. I'm also suspect of "... the sender of the file can set it [the program?] on a timer so that it will automatically “burn” - deleting it [encrypted file] from both devices after a set period of, say, seven minutes." Apple does not allow arbitrary background processing - its usually limited to about 20 minutes. So the process probably won't run on schedule or it will likely be prematurely terminated. In addition, Flash Drives and SSDs are notoriously difficult to wipe an unencrypted secret. Perhaps a properly scoped PenTest with published results would ally my suspicions. It would be really bad if people died: "... a handful of human rights reporters in Afghanistan, Jordan, and South Sudan have tried Silent Text’s data transfer capability out, using it to send photos, voice recordings, videos, and PDFs securely." Jeff _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
