Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0

[Paul Hedderly]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 12:52:39PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:32:17PM -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 20:23, James Blackwell wrote:
> > > From time to time stories come up about how the feds installed a
> > > keystroke logger in order to get the passphrase of one crook or
> > > another.
> > 
> > Arguably circumventing the security in such a matter is distinct from
> > cracking the encryption.
> > 
> > Granted, the end effect is the same.
> 
> The point is that encryption != security.

                                  ^complete

Encryption does add a level of security. Personally, I would really
appreciate arch supporting data encrpytion. (I'm really not bothered
about meta-data encryption - ie branch/version names).

Lets face it: Information is only 100% secure when it doesn't exist...

--
Paul