GnuPG in universities

Pedro Diaz Jimenez pdiaz88@terra.es
Mon Jun 11 00:09:01 2001


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Hi,

Isn't that a little paranoid?.  I mean, Isn't the secret key encripted 
anyway?. And for the sniffing stuff, I never use something less secure than 
ssh  (more secure, for me, is typing at the machine keyboard)

Don't blame me, just trying to be reazonable (how do you spell that??:-)

Cheers
Pedro


On Sunday 10 June 2001 15:54, Werner Koch wrote:

> || On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:23:59 +0100
> || Niklas <niklas.schurig@student.uni-ulm.de> wrote:
>
> n> does anybody have experience with GnuPG (and email-frontends)
> n> used in computer-pools for example in universities (Windows and Linux)
> ?
>
> You can't and should not use ssh or gpg on a shared box! Especially
> not on a box where hundreds of unknown users have access to. Even
> booting your own OS might not work because there might be an
> application which just fakes the boot process. You probably know that
> those pools are regulary used to sniff passwords etc.
>
> Werner
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