From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48994 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner Koch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 2002-01-08 / sending encrypted, but storing plain Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 12:14:46 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87fzs2y3q1.fsf@alberti.g10code.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042111056 14889 80.91.224.249 (9 Jan 2003 11:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Wagp-0003rz-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 12:17:35 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18WahB-0005sU-00; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 05:17:57 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 09 Jan 2003 05:18:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA18062 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 05:18:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8713 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2003 11:17:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8708 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2003 11:17:41 -0000 Original-Received: from porta.u64.de (194.77.88.106) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 9 Jan 2003 11:17:41 -0000 Original-Received: from uucp by kasiski.gnupg.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 18WbhR-0001XE-00; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:22:17 +0100 Original-Received: from wk by alberti.g10code.de with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Wae6-0003L3-00; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 12:14:46 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Organisation: g10 Code GmbH X-Request-PGP: finger:wk@g10code.com X-PGP-KeyID: 621CC013 X-FSFE-Info: http://fsfeurope.org In-Reply-To: (Andreas Fuchs's message of "Wed, 8 Jan 2003 22:22:37 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48994 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48994 On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 22:22:37 +0000 (UTC), Andreas Fuchs said: > somebody could a) read them and, worse, b) launch a known-plaintext > attack on your messages and find out your private key without your > knowledge. Two bad things, IMHO. Modern crypto protocols are in any practically aspects safe against known-plaintext attacks. Furthermore the messages are encrypted using random session keys and they are not stored anywhere. Salam-Shalom, Werner