Hi Daniel, On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > On 07/23/2011 07:04 PM, Marcio B. Jr. wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Robert J. Hansen <r...@sixdemonbag.org> >> wrote: >>>> So far, OTR adoption seems unjustifiable, really. I mean, it uses the >>>> Diffie-Hellman key exchange method with block ciphers. >>> >>> Why is this a problem? >> >> You know, secrets are shared. 100% increase (at least) in "exposing" risks. > > I am struggling with how to respond to your messages since i find them > confusing.
Ok, I am grateful for that struggle. > Are you aware that the purpose of OTR is to allow two parties to > communicate confidentially? Right now, I'm trying to study OTR within some US Fifth Amendment contexts. So I'll answer that in a later time. > OpenPGP itself uses this sort of symmetric encryption to encrypt > messages with a random session key, and only uses asymmetric encryption > to encrypt the session key itself. So, say, my subkey's public part encrypts some session key, not the message itself? Regards, Marcio Barbado, Jr. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
