On 8/6/2014 6:44 AM, Roland Siemons wrote: > Since we know that our computers are being hacked so often by > persons and organisations that are curious about our > communications...
Do we? That seems like rather a leap to me. There are a couple of *billion* home computers on the internet right now: even if you assume tens of thousands of high-end attackers who want to compromise your communications, it seems unlikely that they would be able to target a significant fraction of those couple of billion. If you're doing something high-risk then yes, you should definitely be extremely concerned about someone compromising your system in order to read your email traffic. But otherwise, the people compromising your system are generally more interested in sending spam than reading your email. By all means, use OpenPGP to secure your email traffic. I think it's a good idea. But let's try and keep our paranoia connected to reality, okay? :) > a good idea to store our private keys on a USB stick instead of > having it permanently operational inside Enigmail or GPGWin etc.? No. USB is inherently broken as far as security goes. If you want to go this route, use a smartcard.
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