On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:46:30AM -0800, nate eccels wrote: > Does gpg have any trapdoors.
Even if it did have any, do you seriously expect anybody would come out and say "Yes!" on the official public mailing list? :P Humor aside, the answer ought to be "no" - although all that I can say is "almost certainly no", since I have not myself done a full review of the GnuPG code. Still, there are lots and lots of people who *have* - maintainers of GnuPG packages on all kinds of operating systems and distributions, security researchers hoping for a quick claim to fame, serious security researchers really interested in the risks of deploying GnuPG in various kinds of environment... Since nobody has come up with anything so far, I personally am confident enough that, no, GnuPG does not have any backdoors. And just by the way, it really ought to be "backdoor", not "trapdoor", when you are speaking about cryptography - because, strictly speaking, GnuPG *does* implement various trapdoor algorithms, but that is actually a very, very good thing :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical.
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