what is killing PKI?

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Thursday 4 October 2012 at 10:32:02 AM, in
<mid:87sj9uwpkd.fsf at vigenere.g10code.de>, Werner Koch wrote:



> Modulo the problems of searching,

Searching is not an insurmountable problem: some email clients
(including The Bat!) manage to search in encrypted messages - but you
have to have the passphrase cached at the time (and can only cache one
password).



> spam,

How is spam any more of a problem in a scenario where all messages are
encrypted?



> backup

Creating or restoring?



>  and to
> some extend the potential loss of the private key.

Some will lose (access to) data through carelessness and/or
misfortune. Two choices: multiple secure backups of the private key
stored in different locations, or don't bother encrypting. Hmm. Which
of the two should we promote?

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MFPA                    mailto:expires2012 at rocketmail.com

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