Friday, April 28, 2006

(Empires Fall) More Mail Encryption

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There's an excellent extension for Thunderbird, called Enigmail.

It allows you to send and receive public-key encrypted messages from within Thunderbird.

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Yeah , right !

I used to work at a (name not disclosed) security company up here in canada. They debated for a long time trying to get into the US market writing encryption software , but eventualy decided not to do it. Why ? Because the FBI wanted them to put in a back door to any encryption such that they could instantly break the code and read the messages . Don't do that , and you're not allowed to sell your product in the usa.

It doesn't take much to imagine that every off the shelf "encryption" package of any kind in the US has a similar back door.

If you want encryption write it yourself. Otherwise you're only one you're deluding.

1 comment:

Ottawa Dude said...

test. Just turned on some security after cleaning up too many viagra ads left in the comments. :) Lets see if this keeps the spam count down.