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pgpfan:efail [2021/12/10 13:13] – Satire doesn't work. b.walzer | pgpfan:efail [2022/05/16 19:46] – No one cares about my opinions of media. b.walzer | ||
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A more fundamental problem with all this is that when used for messaging, PGP uses a combined identity/ | A more fundamental problem with all this is that when used for messaging, PGP uses a combined identity/ | ||
- | The OpenPGP standard and implementations of that standard have suffered from security weaknesses of greater significance than EFAIL with no media coverage at all. That is why the media blowup over EFAIL is so odd. I have a theory... | + | The OpenPGP standard and implementations of that standard have suffered from security weaknesses of greater significance than EFAIL with no media coverage at all. That is why the media blowup over EFAIL is so odd. I have no idea why this ended up so wrong. What ever the reasons, |
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- | Encryption "at rest" is pretty much a solved problem for the sorts of things OpenPGP does. That is why the OpenPGP standard is so stable over the years. As a result there is not very much academic interest in such problems any more. | + | |
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- | The excitement these days is mostly centred on the issues of "in flight" | + | |
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- | So this all might just be another | + | |
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pgpfan/efail.txt · Last modified: 2022/05/16 21:17 by b.walzer