gnupg encrypted mail and malware/spam

[Per Tunedal]

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At 20:34 2003-05-11 +0200, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
 >On Sunday 11 May 2003 13:28, Thomas Scheffczyk wrote:
 >> Until now, no comment was given to my first post scriptum:
 >>
 >> 'I do not fear 'ordinary' viruses or other malware. What i =
really
 >> fear is a sophisticated attacker that send on a very slow =
rate
 >> backdoors to single users in my network. I can not =
guarantee the
 >> really no user will start the program. If it is started, =
it's easy to
 >> create a backchannel over allowed traffic like http.'
 >>
 >> Does nobody fear this, too?

 >There's not much you can do to prevent this from happening =
apart from
 >installing a strict policy for the usage of encryption. One =
option
 >would be to disallow MIME (OpenPGP or S/MIME) encrypted =
messages and
 >only allow inline encryption because with inline encryption =
attachments
 >can't be encrypted.
 >
 >Regards,
 >Ingo

Yes, Ingo! GPGrelay encrypts attachments when using inlined =
encryption! I
really like it! A wonderful feature ;-)>
Per Tunedal

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