http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/hushmail-privacy.html
I was impressed by Hushmail?s candor in the above email exchange.
They generally have been open with their statements. OTOH I was
quite disappointed, actually worse than that, about the content of
their answers. Hushmail seemed to have
Adam Back wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Ian G wrote:
I was involved in one case where super-secret stuff was shared
through hushmail, and was also dual encrypted with non-hushmail-PGP
for added security. In the end, the lawyers came in and scarfed up
the lot with subpoenas
an G wrote:
I was involved in one case where super-secret stuff
was shared through hushmail, and was also dual
encrypted with non-hushmail-PGP for added security.
In the end, the lawyers came in and scarfed up the
lot with subpoenas ... all the secrets were revealed
to everyone they should
StealthMonger wrote:
[snip]
The larger truth is that a consequence of using Hushmail is that
record of when, with whom, and the size of each communication is
available to Hush, even though the content is concealed.
So the obvious point is that Hushmail, and systems like it,
become
I don't know anything about this case, so everything I say is pure
supposition.
Let's suppose you have Alice and Bob who are working together on some
sort of business, and they are using some OpenPGP [1] software to
encrypt their emails that pertain to that business. Let's suppose
that
On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:49 AM, John Levine wrote:
Since email between hushmail accounts is generally PGPed. (That is
the point, right?)
Hushmail is actually kind of a scam. In its normal configuration,
it's in effect just webmail with an HTTPS connection and a long
password. It will
