Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-08-24 Thread mirimir
On 08/25/2013 04:04 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 8/24/2013 5:14 PM, Jan wrote: SNIP >> It seems quite easy to advice people to have an offline windows PC >> with gpg4win on it and all their private stuff and a windows(?) >> online PC next to it. They could transfer encrypted messages with an

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-08-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 8/24/2013 5:14 PM, Jan wrote: > We will not be able to change the fact, that most people use an > insecure Windows or Mac OS, neither. In a lot of ways, Windows 7 and beyond are much harder targets to crack than Linux is -- Microsoft's implementation of ASLR is much stronger than Linux's, for i

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-08-24 Thread Jan
Thanks to everyone for the vivid discussion. @HHH: Thanks for your text at http://www.securemecca.com/public/GnuPG/TrustOfGPG4Win-2.txt As my little discourse here should have shown to you, Windows users as a group by and large just don't care about securing their systems. They want a one stop