Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-01 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:42:56PM -0800, Trevor Perrin wrote: Perhaps this is further support for Iang's contention that we should expect newer, interactive protocols (IM, Skype, etc.) to take the lead in communication security. Email-style message encryption may simply be a much harder

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-01 Thread John W Noerenberg II
At 5:58 PM -0800 2/24/06, Ed Gerck wrote: A phone number is not an envelope -- it's routing information, just like an email address. Publishing the email address is not in question and there are alternative ways to find it out, such as search engines. Oh really? Then you should be able to

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-01 Thread Ed Gerck
John W Noerenberg II wrote: At 5:58 PM -0800 2/24/06, Ed Gerck wrote: A phone number is not an envelope -- it's routing information, just like an email address. Publishing the email address is not in question and there are alternative ways to find it out, such as search engines. Oh really?

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-01 Thread StealthMonger
Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian Weimer wrote: I couldn't find a PGP key server operator that committed itself to keeping logs confidential and deleting them in a timely manner (but I didn't look very hard, either). Of course, since PGP hasn't progressed as faster as our

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
At 04:52 PM 2/26/2006, Ben Laurie wrote: Don't forget that the ability to decrypt is just as good as a signature to prove association of the key. All it needs is for one successful trojan that steals your private key/passphrase and plausible deniability is available again. :) Does anybody

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-01 Thread Bill Stewart
Somebody, probably Florian, wrote: I couldn't find a PGP key server operator that committed itself to keeping logs confidential and deleting them in a timely manner (but I didn't look very hard, either). Keyservers are a peripheral issue in PGP - important for convenience and for quick

Study shows how photonic decoys can foil hackers

2006-03-01 Thread leichter_jerrold
Does anyone have an idea of what this is about? (From Computerworld): -- Jerry FEBRUARY 23, 2006 (NETWORK WORLD) - A University of Toronto professor and researcher has demonstrated for the first time a new technique for safeguarding data