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[Jerome Baum]

On 2011-12-17 14:29, gnupg at lists.grepular.com wrote:
> The system can be easily abused, therefore it will be abused. It's just
> a matter of time. How much time, depends on if/when PGP becomes more
> popular. It doesn't strike me as unreasonable to want to put defences in
> place before an attack begins.

Just like you shouldn't write blatantly inefficient code. But there's
also a point after which we call this premature optimization. Ditto for
putting up security measures for a problem that may well never become one.

I would be very happy to see this become a problem in fact. It would
imply that OpenPGP is popular enough to attract script kiddies & co.

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