16 Dec
2010
16 Dec
'10
12:10 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:56:24 -0500
gene heskett <gheskett(a)wdtv.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 05:51:45 pm Jörn
Nettingsmeier did opine:
Hmmm. GPG is mostly compatible with PGP and it has had crypto experts working on
it for years. I would be surprised if they hadn't noticed any back door by now,
and I don't see how PGP could have a major vulnerability without it reflecting
back to GPG.
Just my 2d
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On 12/15/2010 11:14 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Not NASA, FBI. There are reports of 2 or 3 guys witnessing their machinery
busting a post 2.6.2a PGP's key in 30 seconds. No clue if that passes the
snope's sniff test or not, could be nothing more than propaganda to
discourage its use too. It is still a problem for some methods though,
just look at all the hoorah about R.I.M. a few months ago, and I doubt
their encryption is even equal to a 256 bit PGP key. Ralf I suspect, if he were to use pgp, would be
like me, and only
trust pgp-2.6.2a, the last one before they put Zimmerman in jail for
a few years. I have often said, and have been called the uber
paranoid for it, that one of the conditions of his release was that
the next generation of pgp had a back door.
as they say, paranoia doesn't mean they're not after you!
:-D
i think this problem is mitigated somewhat by using open protocols with
open crypto implementations that have undergone public scrutiny. unless
you want to believe that "the NSA has quantum computers anyway and have
solved the entire problem space years ago" :)