>>>>> "E" == Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> writes:
E> ... Moreover, worms which use email as vector exist *only*
E> because a single vendor ships mailers with broken default
E> settings, and insists to make documents executables. This makes
E> for very bad press, and eventually that vendor is going to wise
E> up, and stop shipping as many broken wares
Do you suppose any of us will live long enough to see such a day?
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Eugene Leitl:
>The original comment's context was digital signatures. A digital signature
>is worth sqrat if any userspace app or rogue superuser code can grab your
>keyring in clear
If you have a rogue app on your machine, what
keeps it from sniffing your passphrase? This is
one of the reasons I keep harping on the need for
thin, secure clients.
>A passphrase is a (long, secure) password unlocking (decrypting) your
>keyring. You don't use a passphrase to read your email.
When I read email, I want to respond to email,
which means, were I using a digital signature,
that it needs to be at the ready.
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