On 2009-08-13, David SMITH wrote:

So the people who come on gnupg-users asking for help because they've forgotten their passphrase or accidentally deleted their ~/.gnupg directory don't exist?

I guess that's a new way of replying to them: "You don't exist".

Not forgetting the possibility of malicious intentions - trying to frame someone by putting encrypted data onto someone's computer and tipping off the authorities.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2073974,00.htm In a stunt organised by the civil liberties group Stand, The Home Secretary Jack Straw was sent details to a crime Sunday that could earn him up to two years in prison if the controversial e-commerce bill were made law. ... According to Stand an encrypted email was sent to Mr Straw Sunday afternoon containing a confession to a real crime. The key to decrypt the message will be in Mr Straw's name. Stand will tip off the Metropolitan Commissioner of Police Monday, informing him that Mr Straw has important information about a crime. If the e-commerce bill were in place, Straw would be required to hand over the decryption key or face up to two years in prison. "In principle, under the bill, Jack Straw would have to prove he never had the key in the first place. We are hoping this will help him understand that this is unworkable, an intolerable reversal of the burden of proof and against the Human Rights Act," Says Malcolm Hutty, spokesman for Stand. (September 1999) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users