Crypto wars redux?

[Dave Howe]

On 21/01/2015 20:06, Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <54BEBDA9.7080304 at gmx.co.uk>, Dave Howe
> <DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk> writes
>>> And everyone else is probably forgetting that gathering information
>>> about who is contacting who, is most of the time just as valuable as
>>> what was actually said.
>>
>> And yet, they already HAVE that (in spades, if the story at
>> http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/gchq-intercepted-emails-journalists-ny-times-bbc-guardian-le-monde-reuters-nbc-washington-post
>>
>> is anything to go by) but apparently that isn't good enough?
>
> Were those emails encrypted?
Probably not, but from a metadata point of view (Your "who is contacting
who" ) I doubt that matters.
sender, recipient, and subject line are seldom protected in end-to-end
crypto, although obviously TLS would obfuscate that.