On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 08:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Encrypted disks are still rare, but that is because raids
> that seize people's computers are rare. Of course it is
> regrettable that disk encryption is not part of the operating
> system -- but if Microsoft put it in before we had a strong,
> widely adopted system, they would doubtless muck it up.
Even if they do it after they will still muck it up.
> Email, IM, and voice communication. remains entirely in the
> clear and that is extremely bad. It seems to me that it
> should be possible to sell a decent mail system to
> corporations provided that the mail system provides forward
> secrecy, thus guaranteeing that the only copies of possibly
> inconvenient email are those in the computers of the
First we need to get to the point where everything between firewalls
in encrypted.
--
Crypto is about a helluva lot more than just PGP and RSA...it's about
building the I-beams and sheetrock that will allow robust structures to be
built, it's about the railroad lines and power lines that will connect the
structures, and it's about creating Galt's Gulch in cyberspace, where it
belongs.--Tim May
