gpgsm and expired certificates

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Sun Nov 3 23:02:14 CET 2013


>> "Ingo" == Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> writes:


   > I interpreted "especially because of all which was lately revealed about 
   > the NSA" 

No it was more of a general remark, concerning NSA malpractice of
reading everybody's (uncrypted) email unconditionally.

   > So, your point/hope probably was that a government based CA
   > wouldn't have such a business model and would instead offer this
   > service gratis to the people (so that more people would be
   > protected from the NSA reading their mail). If this was your point
   > then apparently I didn't see it when I first read your message.


That was *precisely* my point, thanks for clarifying it 

Uwe Brauer 
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