-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2013 11:02 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 12/17/2013 10:57 PM, Matt D wrote: >> Lets assume I run Ubuntu live from USB stick or cd when I need >> secure messaging so an attacker cannot predict what machine i >> will send my message from and there will be nothing left on the >> machine. The encrypted message is captured but the adversary >> does not have access to me. What sort of attack has any chance >> to decrypt the message? > > Beating your kneecaps into pulp, hiring a hooker to persuade the > secret out of you, beating your recipient's kneecaps into pulp, > hiring a hooker to persuade the secret out of your correspondent, > Van Eycking your terminal, Van Eycking your recipient's terminal, > figuring out a way to plant an exploit on your USB stick... I could > go on for quite some time, but you get the idea. The best ways to > recover the message do not involve cryptanalysis, and the > non-cryptanalytic means are devastatingly effective. > So in other words the message can not be read by some govt genius with a rack of computers??
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