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On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:46:03 +0300, "Thor Kottelin" <thor@anta.net>
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>"Maximus" <gladiator@thearena.com> wrote in message 
>news:dq3ar89b78fg90c913cb4ms8tec0gtbmem@4ax.com...
>>
>> Can the government crack PGP or GPG?
>
>Can they crack the actual encryption, such as through a brute force, 
>dictionary or similar attack? It depends. The longer the key, the better 
>the passphrase and the shorter (temporally) the need for privacy, the 
>safer the user would be.
>
>Things an oppressive government certainly could do include:
>
>- breaking into the systems of the sender or the recipient, e.g. to 
>install a key logger or simply read the plain text messages
>
>- replacing the software with a modified copy providing a back door
>
>- waterboarding the user until he or she provides the keys and 
>passphrases.

That's pretty good news.  I have read that the government has already
cracked pgp.  I have also read that it has not and it would take
supercomputers years to break it.  I am using GPG with the enigmail
addon in Thunderbird on win764bit.  I am trying to find out how to
move the entire keyring over to a thumb drive but the handbook only
has instructions for WinXP.

How would you know if you had a modified version with a backdoor in
it?

Thanks for the reply.

Maximus Decimus Meridius

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  Re: Nosey Government "Thor Kottelin" <thor@anta.net> - 2013-06-10 09:46 +0300
    Re: Nosey Government Maximus <gladiator@thearena.com> - 2013-06-10 07:29 -0700
      Re: Nosey Government "Thor Kottelin" <thor@anta.net> - 2013-06-10 17:42 +0300
      Re: Nosey Government Peter Schoo <p.schoo@gmx.net> - 2013-06-11 22:52 +0200
        Re: Nosey Government Maximus <gladiator@thearena.com> - 2013-06-11 17:48 -0700
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