On 3/03/11 3:17 PM, David Shaw wrote:
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> The premise (more or less) was that a guy named Martin (RM) was on a
> mailing list and signed all his mail. After some time, a new guy
> (FM) shows up and claims that he is, in fact, Martin. FM may have
> his own key or may not have a key at all. It do
On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> On 1/03/11 9:33 AM, David Shaw wrote:
>>
>> That experiment, while interesting, is not relevant to the "real
>> Martin" / "fake Martin" situation we've been talking about. If both
>> Real Martin and Fake Martin have the same secret key, then the
On 2/03/11 8:20 AM, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
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> Of course, my experience is from a time when UTF-8 wasn't used in email.
> But do the standard mail clients (Outlook, GMail, Thunderbird) really
> default to UTF-8 nowadays? Expecting people to properly configure their
> mail clients is an unrealistic
On 1/03/11 9:33 AM, David Shaw wrote:
>
> That experiment, while interesting, is not relevant to the "real
> Martin" / "fake Martin" situation we've been talking about. If both
> Real Martin and Fake Martin have the same secret key, then there is
> no way to tell them apart using signatures.
Han
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On Wednesday 2 March 2011 at 8:14:08 PM, in
, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> it sounds to me like you've simply made it difficult
> for people to correspond with you over long periods of
> time because your e-mail address isn't likely to
> conti
On 3/2/11 7:37 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> More seriously, I've been through this discussion with MFPA before and
> I can see some circumstances where his idea might have merit, so I'd
> be willing to help test too.
Same here. I am deeply skeptical, but not unwilling to be proven wrong.
IMPOSSIBLE
On 1/03/11 1:20 PM, Grant Olson wrote:
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> I wouldn't mind testing to help out, but I'm not throwing away my
> current key anytime soon.
Ah ha! Another hint about the scav hunt. ;)
More seriously, I've been through this discussion with MFPA before and
I can see some circumstances where his ide
On 3/2/11 6:34 PM, MFPA wrote:
> You are going off at a tangent. The mechanism for preventing the phone
> number being obtainable from a query of the phone book or directory
> enquiry services is not relevant; just the fact that it can easily be
> done.
It's not a tangent at all, and for almost th
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On Wednesday 2 March 2011 at 8:27:50 PM, in
, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> The analogy continues to break down. "Binding," in the
> context of the analogy, means "if someone breaks this
> instruction, they will be hurt." Maybe the government
>
On 3/2/11 2:25 PM, MFPA wrote:
> Once, maybe. But for quite a few years (in the UK at least) there have
> been many competing directory enquiries services, and more recently
> the online versions as well. Choosing to be ex-directory is a
> binding instruction to your telephone company not to releas
On 03/02/2011 02:25 PM, MFPA wrote:
> For somebody who uses the same email address to communicate with many
> contacts and keeps the same email address for a long time, that is
> true. For somebody like me who uses various different email addresses
> and replaces some of them on a regular basis it
> 1. the functionality of the software
It implements RFC4880. All MUST functions, as well as the overwhelming
majority of SHOULDs (perhaps all!), are supported.
> 2. the licensing structure(s) of the software and
> associated prices for licensing
GNU GPL v3. How much it costs depends on from w
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On Wednesday 2 March 2011 at 4:07:19 AM, in
, Robert J.
Hansen wrote:
>> The benefits of your phone number being ex-directory
>> are the benefits that derive from it being harder for
>> people to obtain your phone number without your
>> permis
You can find most (if not all) of the answers you're looking for at
http://gnupg.org/
After reading the material there if you still have questions, fire away.
Doug
On 03/02/2011 06:56, Mizana ;) wrote:
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Good-day. I am enquiring further about the GnuGP Encryption Software.
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