German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 02/27/2015 11:21 PM, Hauke Laging wrote:
> Am Fr 27.02.2015, 23:05:07 schrieb Peter Lebbing:
> 
>> But what about that Man in the Middle who does nothing more than 
>> receive your message encrypted to their key and forward it to
>> the real recipient you are building a trust relationship with?
> 
> He does have to do more: He has to intercept the messages or
> deceive you about the email address to use. Both is possible, both
> are non-triviasl tasks so that you also have to ask: If he can to
> that why assume that he doesn't just hack your system?
> 
> 

_cracking_ the system (I hack my system every day..) would leave
traces, the same would not necessarily be true for DNS poisioning or
BGP hijacking on the network layer.

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