NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

Udhay Shankar N udhay at pobox.com
Wed Mar 1 06:50:42 EST 2006


At 04:52 PM 2/26/2006, Ben Laurie wrote:

>Don't forget that the ability to decrypt is just as good as a signature
>to prove association of the key.

All it needs is for one successful trojan that steals your private 
key/passphrase and "plausible deniability" is available again. :)

Does anybody know if there were followups to the Caligula virus, 
which was a proof-of-concept that stole PGP keyrings?

Udhay

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