On 30 Apr 2023, at 14:42, Johan Wevers via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> 
wrote:
> 
> On 2023-04-30 14:58, Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> Whether this is done voluntarily or under duress from their employer is an 
>> opsec issue, not a comsec one.
> 
> If it is an ex-employer that might be more compicated.

Indeed. If this is in your threat model then don’t use work email addresses for 
personal communication, because encryption cannot protect you.

>> The danger of an “ignore ADK” option is that it gives a false sense of 
>> security. It is already possible for an employer to require escrow of the 
>> decryption subkeys of their employees - ADK actually makes this process more 
>> transparent.
> 
> That might be, but it is nowhere certain that this escrow will happen,
> especially if they roll out adk's.

You’re inverting the burden of proof here. The important consideration is that 
E2E can’t prove that a key *wasn’t* escrowed - so it’s much better for the 
software to make no claims about it than potentially misleading ones. 

A



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