Re: Betr.: Re: encryption

["Philip Wagenaar" <p.wagenaar () accon nl>]

Exactly!

And why is key length limited so much in PGP? For the speed? If I have a message that is very confidential, I don't 
mind waiting a few minutes before it's encrypted.



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> > > Bastian Schwittay <Bastian.Schwittay () rwth-aachen de> 29-01-05 04:52 >>>
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> Why isn't my cellphone encrypted? Anyone who steels it and read my 
> messages, agenda and view my pictures.
> Why isn't aren't my msn messenger conversations encrypted?
>
> Is it just because we don't want it? Or is it because companies and 
> goverments rather see plain text on the wire?

You might be up to something there... It's just easier to monitor plain 
text messages, be it emails or SMS or whatever. And the NSA is doing it 
right now(Echelon system). I recommend "Body of Secrets" by James 
Bamford, which covers all of that aspects in detail, and it's also an 
interesting book on the biggest secret service on earth.
With their immense computational power (who knows how many Gigaflops 
they currently got?) they could probably break and scan even today's 
GPG encrypted messages with ease, but not on such a large scale. That 
means if everyone used PGP, they'd be screwed :-)

MfG
Bastian Schwittay

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