[LINK] [PRIVACY] Re: Gmail and crypto

[Glen Turner]

> GPG/PGP is harder to set up and, because it is not heirarchical, means
> you must set up a relationship with a recipient before you send, but if
> a key is compromised, it only affects stuff sent using that key - not
> every key you ever produced.

This isn't necessary a disadvantage. Measuring the degrees between you and 
Kevin Bacon is a good measure of the probability that Kevin is sending you 
spam.

(I always get upset when the Attorney-Generals Department tries to blame 
ISPs for spam. It was the AGD's Wassenaar Arrangement which suppressed the 
widespread use of cryptography in e-mail.)

-glen

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Glen Turner <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/>