
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Eavesdropping prevention is important, and is an important feature that PGP provides. If a MITM can subvert the privacy, but not the authenticity of the data, PGP becomes pretty pathetic. Adam bryce@digicash.com wrote: | I still have a strong intuition that I could keep my cash if | I made such a proposal and gave it a few simple stipulations | (such as that the attacker would have to forge important | material in the victim's name rather than just use the | attack to eavesdrop...). The successful attacker would -- It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume