----- Forwarded message from Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> ----- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:10:36 -0500 From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> To: ianG <iang@iang.org> Cc: cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] LeastAuthority.com announces PRISM-proof storage service On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:02 PM, ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote:

Super! I think a commercial operator is an essential step forward.

A few points: - if only you access your own files then there's much less interest for a government in your files: they might contain evidence of crimes and conspiracies, but you can always be compelled to produce those - if you share files then traffic analysis will reveal much about what you're up to, and there may be much interest in getting at your files' contents. - commercial operators who give you software to run can compromise (or allow governments to compromise) you even if they are not technically an end-point[*] for your end-to-end protocols. - it's really not easy to defeat the PRISMs. the problem is *political* more than technological. - i'm not trying to detract from Tahoe-LAFS -- it's a spectacular idea, I wish it well, and I generally endorse filesystems of this sort. [*] In Tahoe-LAFS, ZFS, and any other similar filesystems, there is only one end-point: the client(s); the server, in particular, is NOT an end-point. Nico -- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5