15 Dec
2010
15 Dec
'10
7:56 p.m.
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 16:41:32 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
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" :)