PKC

[Owen Blacker]

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But most users are probably not that secure...   :o/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Thomson [mailto:tthomson@linkguard.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:26 PM
> To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: Re: PKC
> 
> 
> > From: owner-ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> > [mailto:owner-ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Brian
> > Gladman Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 6:22 PM
> > To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> > Subject: Re: Re: PKC
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > You may be content to keep and use your encryption keys on 
> your Internet
> > connected PC because you believe that keeping them separately
> > won't improve
> > your security but I know I can do better than this.
> >
> >    Brian
> 
> Not terribly relevant, but my personal encryption keys do 
> indeed live on my
> home PC, even when it's connected to the internet; they (at 
> least some of
> them) also live on key servers, for all and sundry to see, so 
> I don't think
> removing them from the PC would improve my security at all 
> (unless I also
> removed them from the key servers). My decryption keys are of
> course a different matter, and are never on the machine when it is 
> connected to the
> net (or indeed even when the machine has been booted from 
> media which has
> been exposed, directly or indirectly, to net connection). Do 
> you really
> think I would be more secure with an external black box?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
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