Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-13 Thread Jurre andmore
I have been looking at this proposal as well and it certainly has potential to make a comeback and be an actual standard, I wonder what the openpgp authors have to say, fabio, did you forward this to the openpgp list by any chance? Jurre 2013/9/11 Lodewijk andré de la porte > 2013/9/10 David D

Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread Lodewijk andré de la porte
2013/9/10 David D > Quote, " You've got to think (NSA claims to be the biggest employer of > mathematicians) that seeing the illegal activities the US has been getting > up to with the fruits of their labour that they may have a mathematician > retention or motivation problem on their hands." > >

Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread David D
: Ian Brown; cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal? You know coincidentally we (the three authors of that paper) were just talking about that very topic in off-list (and PGP encrypted:) email. I remain keen on forward-

Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread Adam Back
You know coincidentally we (the three authors of that paper) were just talking about that very topic in off-list (and PGP encrypted:) email. I remain keen on forward-secrecy, and it does seem to be in fashion again right now. Personally I think we in the open community need to up our game an ord

[cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i just read about this internet draft "Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP" available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-brown-pgp-pfs-03 . Is it a still good proposal? Should it be revamped as an actual improvement of currently existing use of OpenPGP technology? -- Fabio Pietros