New smart card / token alternative
Peter Lebbing
peter at digitalbrains.com
Tue Nov 7 18:05:53 CET 2017
On 07/11/17 15:58, listo factor via Gnupg-users wrote:
> If the connection between the user and the computer
> is transient, there may well be many instances where the adversary
> will not be able to identify the user, even if he manages to learn
> the content, and where the content, without the identity of the
> communicator, is of very limited value to the adversary.
I'm not commenting on the rest of this topic, but let me pick this one
thing out.
How exactly can the identity ever be unknown when we're talking about
stuff encrypted to an OpenPGP public key or signed by one? That's a
completely unique identifier!
Peter.
--
I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail.
You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy.
My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter>
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