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 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
