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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    HTTPS as well
From:       Mike Acker <Mike_Acker () charter ! net>
Date:       2011-04-27 16:58:42
Message-ID: 4DB84B42.6030509 () charter ! net
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On 14:59, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> > yep. Phil Zimmerman noted that in his original essay on PGP.  If you
> > > have a malware infection you can no longer speak to what your computer
> > > is or is not doing.
> In fact, it's quite a bit worse than that.  Your traffic is secure only so long as \
> both endpoints are secure.  Depending on who does the numbers, 15%-30% of all \
> desktops are pwn3d.  Even if your desktop is safe, the odds aren't good the other \
> end will be, too. 
> There are many reasons why I feel OpenPGP is more or less irrelevant in the world \
> today, outside of some very special case scenarios.  This is one of the big ones: \
> OpenPGP's necessary precondition -- that our endpoints are both securable and \
> secured -- is not met. 
> 
> 
> 

you are 100% correct.  and this applies to HTTPS as well. also S/FTP

-- 
/MIKE


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