crypto mailbox

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Fri Apr 22 17:10:00 EDT 2005


On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Jason Huddleston wrote:

> Why don't they use PGP for messages of this importance???

I can't control the sender's use of PGP.

(the excerpted bit from me which your mail client did something weird with 
instead of quoting follows:)

> To be honest my target was more along the line of Sam Weiler's worries,
> namely, for people who are paranoid a warrant will show up and their
> machine will walk away. Presumably there's still the "wiretap" equivalent
> problem (someone gets a copy of the data before it's encrypted) but if it
> went over the wire in the clear you already have that problem. This only
> precludes the bits from being available at a later time, not any time up
> until they're encrypted.
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