On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:10:26PM -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote: > The original question was about a choice between not using PGP at > all or using PGP on an imperfectly secure (but not ridiculously > insecure) box. My opinion is that the security benefits from using > PGP outweigh the risks.
And I would consider it very foolish to entrust my private key to a
lab machine, but I imagine that I value my private key's
confidentiality a little more than most. From what I hear from my
co-workers' experiences at their schools, lab machines are compromised
much more often than one might imagine. We tend to only hear about
the ones who get caught because they are too greedy or stupid.
Mike
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Michael A. Halcrow
Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center
GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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