On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:18:49AM -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Graham wrote: > > we are faced with the use of these very strong encryption tools by > > those who would attack the very heart of our way of life. > > Prove it. > > You're asserting "the right to privacy and the means to enforce that > right are so dangerous to our way of life that they must be restricted > in their scope." > > That's an extraordinary claim, and it needs extraordinary evidence to > back it up... extraordinary evidence I have never seen from anyone who > has made this claim.
Hear, hear. Consider the asymmetric nature of the conflict. A small, loosely-knit organization with few, simple operations in the works is much more likely to prefer the superior security of a handful of arbitrary single-use codes agreed to in face-to-face meetings to the use of algorithmic encryption. PGP and the like are most useful to a large, busy organization because the sheer volume of traffic makes other types of secrecy impractical and relatively insecure. If terrorists are using PGP it is probably because they haven't thought about it very much. Any systematic method can be broken sooner or later. But, if "how is uncle George" means "attack at dawn", how could you possibly calculate that if you weren't in on the secret already? What good would it do you to learn that after the fact, if that meaning is abandoned after a single operation? I use PGP because it provides more than enough protection for my personal and professional business and allows me to easily communicate in reasonable security with large numbers of people I've never personally met. I require a meager amount of secrecy and a good deal of ease-of-use. This is just about the opposite of the requirements of a guerilla, who risks lives and The Cause on communicating sparingly with a very few well-known partners who already know most of the message. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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