[GTALUG] Bill That Would Ban End-to-End Encryption Savaged by Critics

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2016-04-09 05:05 PM, James Knott wrote:
> 
> GPG forever!

Except that:

1) you can still see all the regular e-mail header metadata, so with a
lot of data correlation, you can work out who is doing what and who is
part of which network without decrypting the messages;

2) it sets the NSA's "Has Something To Hide" bit:

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27/nsa_loves_it_when_you_use_pgp/>; and

3) you have to assume that the code and the system you're running it on
haven't been compromised.

cheers,
 Stewart