PGP - A net of betrayal?

[Ken Brown]

M J D Brown wrote:
> 
> In a different thread, Changes at NAI, Arturo Quirantes wondered whether
> Phil Zimmerman would like to re-buy PGP and perhaps accept shareholders.
> 
> The thought prompts the question, in the new circumstances of the RIPA
> being an accomplished fact, whether UK users would be better advised to
> seek an alternative method of protecting their private and confidential
> messages.
> 
> The problem, as I see it, centres on the 'web of trust' concept that
> is inseparable from PGP, at least so far as unsophisticated users
> are concerned.

[...]

> It seems to me that caution suggests the use of a privacy protection
> method that powerfully encourages the use of private keys unique to
> each pair of correspondents.

In that case, if they get one of the pair they know the other one is
connected to them.