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Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference?

Date 2026-09-17 01:12 -0500
Subject Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference?
Message-ID <m2h5joxv7p.fsf@cock.li> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <1789151388.7E091F72D2A93E2A@domain.invalid> <1181mbr$36mul$1@dont-email.me> <1789536785.61C5975D04E614D3@domain.invalid> <118dgf1$2p5ti$1@news.tcpreset.net> <118e6if$3e60l$1@dont-email.me>
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.freeware
From Librarian2025 <librarian2025@cock.li>

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"R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> writes:

> Gab,
>
>>> Why though? There is no magical vulnerability in symmetric
>>> encryption.
>
> You're correct, there is nothing magical about it.
>
>>> Asymmetric encryption solves key distribution problem,
>>> nothing else.
>
> Just think of what could happen when one of both parties "looses" their 
> symetric key ?

I'm pretty sure they then would exchange keys again. Same as they've
done before and same as they would have to do if one of them lose secret
key. The process of exchanging keys would be different, of course, but
not necessarily "worse" than in case of asymmetric encryption.

> And just assume that they do not realise that it has 
> happened.

We can "just assume" a lot of things. Let's assume that one of them lost
their secret key and they lost the email of the other party. So now
they can't access their previous correspondence, and they don't know
where to write to re-establish communication. Now what?

> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser

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Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What’s the Difference? Kim JongUn <USAandNK@WorkersParty.org> - 2026-09-09 20:41 +0200
  Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What’s the Difference? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-09 21:34 +0200
  Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-09 22:22 +0200
    Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Kim JongUn <USAandNK@WorkersParty.org> - 2026-09-09 22:50 +0200
      Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-10 07:43 +0200
    Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Hermes <noreply@oc2mx.net> - 2026-09-11 17:30 +0000
      Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-11 20:07 +0200
        Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Hermes <noreply@oc2mx.net> - 2026-09-11 18:29 +0000
          Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-11 21:55 +0200
            Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Hermes <noreply@oc2mx.net> - 2026-09-11 20:32 +0000
              Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-12 08:22 +0200
            Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Librarian2025 <librarian2025@cock.li> - 2026-09-16 00:32 -0500
              Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-16 08:44 +0200
              Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Gab_Virebent <gabriel1@virebent.invalid> - 2026-09-16 09:28 +0200
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-16 15:45 +0200
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-16 18:57 +0100
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-16 21:40 +0200
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-17 00:46 +0100
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-17 09:38 +0200
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-17 10:32 +0100
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-17 19:12 +0200
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-18 11:16 +0100
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                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Librarian2025 <librarian2025@cock.li> - 2026-09-17 01:12 -0500
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-17 09:46 +0200
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Librarian2025 <librarian2025@cock.li> - 2026-09-17 13:54 -0500
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-17 22:11 +0200
        Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-11 20:31 +0200
          Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-11 22:16 +0200
            Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-11 22:44 +0200
              Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-12 08:42 +0200
                Re: Zero-Knowledge Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption: What's the Difference? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-12 10:46 +0100
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