Hi, At <http://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/> there are some snippets of the e-mails Snowden sent to Poitras as an introduction. One of those e-mails says:
"I would like to confirm out of email that the keys we exchanged were not intercepted and replaced by your surveillants. Please confirm that no one has ever had a copy of your private key and that it uses a strong passphrase." Of course, we don't have the full picture, but from the information that has been released, this seems to be surprising question: how would you be able to confirm that the keys are not replaced by asking to confirm that no one has ever had a copy of the private key? If they keys have been obtained by the adversary, the answer may be altered or not. In any case, the answer doesn't prove anything. Of course, if Poitras would answer that her private key is in the hands of some other person, I expect her to have revoked to key anyways. So, what's the objective of Snowden, you think? And yes, I am aware that Snowden says these steps are not bullet proof. -- Rejo Zenger E r...@zenger.nl | P +31(0)639642738 | W https://rejo.zenger.nl T @rejozenger | J r...@zenger.nl OpenPGP 1FBF 7B37 6537 68B1 2532 A4CB 0994 0946 21DB EFD4 XMPP OTR 271A 9186 AFBC 8124 18CF 4BE2 E000 E708 F811 5ACF
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