Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On 05/26/2012 08:01 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Marsh Ray writes: > >> Perhaps someone who knows German can better interpret it. > > The government was asked "are encrypted communications creating any > difficulties for law enforcement in terms of pursuing criminals and > terrorists?". The gover

Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Peter Maxwell
On 26 May 2012 06:57, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Werner Koch writes: > > >Which is not a surprise given that many SSH users believe that ssh > >automagically make their root account save and continue to use their lame > >passwords instead of using PK based authentication. > > That has its own proble

Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:19:33AM -0700, Jon Callas wrote: > My money would be on a combination of traffic analysis and targeted > malware. We know that the Germans have been pioneering using targeted malware > against Skype. Once you've done that, you can pick apart anything else. Just > a simpl