STrange message...

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Mon Oct 27 15:34:00 CET 2008


Hello Robert !

"Robert J. Hansen" <rjh at sixdemonbag.org> wrote:

>> I took a message on this list with Thunderbird, and a dialog box
>> poped up asking me to introduce my passphrase or my card's pin...
>> What's that?

> Do you mean "what's up with that window appearing"?  Enigmail (a plugin
> for Thunderbird, one you apparently have installed) saw a PGP message
> header, assumed it contained an encrypted message, and prompted for a
> passphrase.

    May we assume that this kind of pop-up cannot be imitated by a hacker that wants us to type our passphrase in his box?


-- 
Laurent Jumet
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