Re: gpg vs smime, snowden etc

2015-01-01 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Thursday 01 January 2015 19:19:58 Uwe Brauer wrote: > Hello > > I am sorry if this is a little off-topic but I am not sure where to ask. > I use both, gpg and smime (the later either with gpgsm or with > thunderbird) > > Recently the German news magazine «Der Spiegel» [1] published more of > t

Re: gpg vs smime, snowden etc

2015-01-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.01.2015, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Recently the German news magazine «Der Spiegel» [1] published more of > the «Snowden files», which reveal that gpg is NSA safe[2]. > > Does anybody know whether smime has the same level of security? There > are at least two possible weak spots. Nobody really

gpg vs smime, snowden etc

2015-01-01 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello I am sorry if this is a little off-topic but I am not sure where to ask. I use both, gpg and smime (the later either with gpgsm or with thunderbird) Recently the German news magazine «Der Spiegel» [1] published more of the «Snowden files», which reveal that gpg is NSA safe[2]. Does anybody