Re: Secret key holder identity

2 msg	Use same key for S/MIME and OpenPGP

Secret key holder identity (was: Local file enc...
\ NikNot (19 Feb 2007)
. \ Joseph Oreste Bruni (19 Feb 2007)
. . \ NikNot (20 Feb 2007)
. \ Janusz A. Urbanowicz (20 Feb 2007)
. . \ NikNot (21 Feb 2007)
. . . \ Werner Koch (22 Feb 2007)
. . . . \ NikNot (22 Feb 2007)
. . . . \ Janusz A. Urbanowicz (23 Feb 2007)
. \ vedaal (21 Feb 2007)
. \ vedaal (21 Feb 2007)
. . \ NikNot (22 Feb 2007)
. \ Sven Radde (21 Feb 2007)

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8 msg	GnuPG on MS Vista

Subject:	Re: Secret key holder identity
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	Janusz A. Urbanowicz
Date:	23 Feb 2007

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:02, niknot said:
>
> > If the system was designed for the real world, the encrypted message
> > would, by default, consist of a binary data set, indistingushable from a
> > random stream, until and unless decrypted using the recipient's private key.
>
> A real world system needs to know the key for decryption and not fall
> back to a time consuming mode of trial decryption with all available
> secret keys. Some people are using dozens or even hundreds of secret
> keys; in particular if you are using several pseudonyms or key
> rotating.
>
> OpenPGP is not designed to thwart traffic analysis. It has merely
> some provisions to help such a system

And the modern anti-terrorist research and operational practice shows, that
you dont need to know actual meessage to do law-enforcement-level-meaningful
traffic analysis.

Alex
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