On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > If the system was designed for the real world, the encrypted message > > would, by default, consist of a binary data set, indistingushable from a > > random stream, until and unless decrypted using the recipient's private key. > > A real world system needs to know the key for decryption and not fall > back to a time consuming mode of trial decryption with all available > secret keys. Some people are using dozens or even hundreds of secret > keys; in particular if you are using several pseudonyms or key > rotating. > > OpenPGP is not designed to thwart traffic analysis. It has merely > some provisions to help such a system
And the modern anti-terrorist research and operational practice shows, that you dont need to know actual meessage to do law-enforcement-level-meaningful traffic analysis. Alex -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: 0x46399138 od zwracania uwagi na detale są lekarze, adwokaci, programiści i zegarmistrze -- Czerski _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
