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Re: authenticated email

2003-06-04 09:58:04
Excuses, I jumped too quickly into this discussion, and only then I read
the other posts on this thread, that already express what's important;

Vernon Schryver wrote:
"legally" (as if I showed an ID).

"Legally"?--Talk about a disaster in the making

I quoted "legally".

[...] require a passphrased for each use of the secret key?--probably
not.[...] trojan horses [...] that posts the secret key passphrase "dialog box" and then capture keystrokes.[...] dictionary attack on the passphrase [...] pop-up [...]

That is a lot of ways to compromise it.




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