On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:06:37PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > Peter Gutmann wrote: > > ... to a statistically irrelevant bunch of geeks. > > Watch Skype deploy a not- terribly-anonymous (to the > > people running the Skype servers) communications > > system. > > Actually that is pretty anonymous. Although I am sure > that Skype would play ball with any bunch of goons that > put forward a plausible justification, or threated to > rip their fingernails off, most government agencies find > it difficult to deal with anyone that they cannot > casually have thrown in jail - dealing with equals is > not part of their mindset. So if your threat model does > not include the FBI and the CIA, chances are that the > people who are threatening you will lack the > organization and mindset to get Skype's cooperation.
That's also true for e-mail where the only encryption is in the transport. Except that you tend to store your e-mails and not your phone calls, of course. But you could always encrypt your filesystem and not your e-mail itself, and that way avoid all the portability issues that Alec brought up. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
