On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 05:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 01:56, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:43:20 -0600, > > > > Rick Sewill <rsewill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Get the attention of people who can make a difference. > > > >The EFF is involved in several issues related to encryption and might be > >an organization worth supporting to help keep strong encryption without > >law enforcement key escrow legal for individuals and to bring to light > >and limit overly broad government surveilance. > > I do, and we all should, support the EFF, as long as they represent our > goals. OTOH, I'm not in favor of a key escrow that is not somehow > distributed and trackerless as in bittorrent. Why? Because a single > point becomes a vulnerability when a single, middle of the night raid, > watergate style, can disable that whole infrastructure in one swell foop. > If the black hats snoop the public key database, all they have gained is > the ability to send me an encrypted message. Theoreticaly(sp) that > doesn't give them the key to decrypt a message I might send. > > OTOH, the bigger the database, the easier it might be to analyze and > recover the private key but I'm not an expert. > > I once saw it quoted that an expert was somebody more than 50 miles from > home and carrying a briefcase. I don't qualify on either count. :) That's a "consultant". ;) LX
