PGP Signature and Melissa Stuff

[Paul Wiener]

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 01:12:27 -0400, Ralph Cohen wrote:

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>>About encrypting making sense in business only :
>>If only such mail is envelpoed, the wrong people might get nosy and try to
>>setup a trojan at your computer to catch the secret key file. Cracking
>>that is possible, so from then on, they read your enc. stuff cause it is
>>important (It gotta be, after all, its encrypted).
>>
>>Ohh, this trojan already exists in different versions out in the net.
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>
>Josch,
>
>If encrypting certain groups of messages could cause attention to be
>paid to them by the "wrong people" who might set up a trojan, etc. to
>grab your secret key file, then why would encrypting all your messages
>make you less of a target?  I would imagine that in most cases, the
>targets of email interception are chosen before consideration is given
>to what if any encryption they may use.  As you pointed out, even if
>encryption is encountered there are ways around it.

Maybe the point is that if everybody routinely encrypted everything, nothing
would show up on anybody's radar.

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