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 ha
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 se
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?
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
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
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 di
At 01:42 PM 2/26/2006, someone alleging to be Trevor Perrin replied to some
people
The problem is that pesky public-key. A public-key such as
[2. application/pgp-keys]...
is N O T user-friendly.
True enough about public keys. Not so true about key fingerprints - a
20-char fingerprint is probabl
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 t
