| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 20:17:09 |
| Subject: | Re: PGP and UUen/decode |
Hello Alan
On 15-Aug-00, you wrote:
>> Which either leads to "Ok, here's my key. Look! It's all innocent! Sorry
>> you wasted your time", or "I've lost it".
>
> oh, they could have my key...then, as soon as they're gone, i revoke my key
> and create a new one to take its place.
But they can still read every message someone ever sent to you, and vice
versa (if they have their key as well)
Changing your key only affects FUTURE correspondance.
> this is what the government dont understand! They dont know the technology,
> they have no idea how it works. the police could waste 10 men in resources
> just to discover my email is 'yes, i'll meet you down the pub for the party'
And the next mail would be "btw I have £50 worth of crack cocaine, we'll share
it after we get ratarsed, matey!"
And then you go to prison.
>> passes through my ISP at some point.
>
> it'll sit on your ISP if your SMTP isnt up.
It won't, 'cos my SMTP will 'always' be up. The wonders of having a "business"
ADSL line will mean that I can do anything any self-respecting business does,
including having many decent IP addresses for my boxes rather than some
odd IP-NAT config - and bypass the ISP by having most mail sent directly to
me (there is no guarantee that any mail will hit a certain SMTP server apart
from the destination one... IIRC)
Thanks
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