Re: Secret key holder identity

2007-02-22 Thread NikNot
ic analysis. It has merely > some provisions to help such a system > Thanks Werner - we agree on the OpenPGP design. I'm only trying to point out that this is a serious limitation, more so now than at the time PGP was born (or OpenPGP was designed). Tempora mutantur (et nos in illis?) Nik

Re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-21 Thread NikNot
, by default, consist of a binary data set, indistingushable from a random stream, until and unless decrypted using the recipient's private key. NikNot ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-21 Thread NikNot
g all (to him) usefull information from the flow of messages. Consequently, the question should not be what pgpdump will or will not produce, the question should be what information is or is not contained in the message previous to its decryption. NikNot ___ Gn

Re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-19 Thread NikNot
a threat that may be naively ignored only in geek kindergartens, but not in the real life. NikNot ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-19 Thread NikNot
d whatsoever to protect the identity of the secret key holder (and, by extension, that traffic analysis - as opposed to the secret content analysis - is not something to be concerned with). NikNot ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gn

Re: Newbie question

2007-02-18 Thread NikNot
are building your own applications that have nthing to do with PGP). Piping data through GPG is not a solution that our users would appreciate. NikNot On 2/9/07, Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > - Does libcrypt do t