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Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Udhay Shankar N)
Wed Mar 1 09:15:11 2006

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From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
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At 04:52 PM 2/26/2006, Ben Laurie wrote:

>Don't forget that the ability to decrypt is just as good as a signature
>to prove association of the key.

All it needs is for one successful trojan that steals your private 
key/passphrase and "plausible deniability" is available again. :)

Does anybody know if there were followups to the Caligula virus, 
which was a proof-of-concept that stole PGP keyrings?

Udhay

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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))


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