15 Dec
2010
15 Dec
'10
9:47 p.m.
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:40:20 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 19:56 +0100, Arnold Krille
wrote:
Still you have to know the password for the key :-P
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 16:41:32 Jörn
Nettingsmeier wrote:
There still is a much easier way to decrypt mails. I'm not talking about
a completely encrypted hard disk. Get the non-public, private key. Is
this key saved in a file on a computer that is connected to the web,
e.g. for usage directly with your mail client? Hack the firewall and get
that key or burglarise the flat to get access to the non-public, private
key. On 12/15/2010 11:14 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Some months back fbi had to admit that current encryption is to good for
them. After a year of trying they returned a hard-disk (which Mexican
police asked them to decrypt) admitting they couldn't do anything to get
the data... Went through fefe's blog...
Have fun,
Arnold 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" :)