Re[2]: RIP on The Today programme

[Andrew Brown]

On Tuesday, March 07, 2000, at 4:17:52 PM, Wendy Grossman wrote:

WG> Giving police access to your private key, therefore,
WG> has more consequences than just giving them access to all your past 
WG> encrypted data (though this is also true); it also opens the way for 
WG> anyone seizing a copy of your key to impersonate you.

WG> Is that scary enough?

Yes; and it's a good and important point. Private keys are really "the
boundaries of my person" on the INternet.




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