On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Aadisht Khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> After the Radia tapes and their leaking, and GoI's insistent demands for > GMail and Blackberry Messaging being opened up to them, I would have > thought that more people would see the sense in moving to PGP encrypted > email for communication. I agree. However, as far as mailing lists are concerned, a more appropriate use is authentication. As numerous enterprising folks jump on to various bandwagons to spread disinformation [1], and the most basic means of using the internet is also not trustable [2] - authentication is vital. But then, so is repudiation [3]. And deniability. (Just to muddy the waters. :)) Udhay [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/12/13/confusion-over-origin-of-fake-pakistan-wikileaks/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning [3] http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Repudiation_Attack [4] http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
