From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: security: Encrypted mail in the archive
Date: 01 May 2001 14:16:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pudti7rz.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kp7l011u8b.fsf@utip202.cs.utwente.nl> (Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "01 May 2001 09:37:32 +0200")
Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
> > If this is not acceptable in your environment, you need a
> > cryptographic filesystem anyway, so I don't consider this a problem.
>
> I consider this to be a _big_ problem, because it is definitely not what I
> would expect. If I send encrypted mail, the local copy should be encrypted
> too.
Even if the archived copy is encrypted, the article may have been
written to disk in plaintext, for example as a draft or as an
auto-save copy. Or the user might have included some attachment which
has to be on disk in plaintext the time the message sent.
IMHO, encrypting the archived copy just gives a false sense of
security.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-01 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-29 14:48 Andreas Fuchs
2001-04-29 17:30 ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-01 7:37 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2001-05-01 11:17 ` Andreas Fuchs
2001-05-01 11:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-05-01 16:51 ` Andreas Fuchs
2001-05-01 14:27 ` Charles Sebold
2001-05-01 12:16 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-05-01 12:59 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-05-01 11:08 ` Simon Josefsson
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