Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

NikNot niknot at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 19:54:17 CET 2007


On 2/19/07, Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any reason to physically secure your *public* keyring in
> ...  (Well, I suppose you might want to hide your secret identity!)

Unfortunately, the whole GPG, with WebOfTrust construct, makes the
assumption that there is no need whatsoever to protect the identity of
the secret key holder (and, by extension, that traffic analysis - as
opposed to the secret content analysis - is not something to be
concerned with).

NikNot



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