Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mok-Kong Shen Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 11:01:38 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 47 Message-ID: <55C32272.2090608@t-online.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net dUB0sVWRYA47Tu+ZL7BnyM60NxtopZ7eyX3a1uBL3X5swTDlS+4cpoM+MG0+NIAPFrnwwHWznT5N68pAlZzYxf2bHXivrGWZYXtoSVydgQ4h7e057xKM3JgLO3LayuIL NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="wU+pCx8qITjUu46WxemFMet06EtRw8cXYny+L0FeEnCudsONvhKenQdFmqswhtiM1iiM0ONVn6T8zNvNiOLIVaFxdg8ORI4Z1ggFl89ln0VKRoa/Vo/OJn2eVBaAZOlA1OKAFWnx12sDSkmhPWeEAMPwe4waBjC2iu4mq4ifHSQ="; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 To: "J. Clarke" In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:J4rUJnVpqYH2QZEuZxgyZ7PCT0c= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:5588 Am 06.08.2015 um 04:07 schrieb J. Clarke: > In article , mok-kong.shen@t-online.de > says... >> >> Am 03.08.2015 um 12:50 schrieb J. Clarke: >>> In article , mok-kong.shen@t-online.de >>> says... >>>> >>>> The fact that anyone could send an encrypted message to the owner of >>>> a RSA public key in asymmetric encryption could be highly valuable in >>>> cases e.g. activists in non-democratic countries send (if they manage >>>> to anonymously send, eventually from an Internet cafe etc.) encrypted >>>> messages to the press in democratic foreign countries containing >>>> informations that, for some reasons, should not be immediately revealed >>>> to the public, nor known to any third parties. >>> >>> If it should not be immediately revealed to the public or known to any >>> third parties, then sending it to "the press in democratic foreign >>> countries" is the action of a fool. >> >> Sorry, I don't understand you. An activist may know only some small >> part of the stuffs involved, which the foreign journalists, having >> obtained the hints, could do fruther researches with their own means >> and resources. Consequently the non-democratic governments (the "third >> parties") preferrably shouldn't know yet that some critical >> informations have already been leaked out that way. > > Until the press tells them. The press does not keep secrets. Of course the press should inform the public at some time point about the issue (otherwise what's the purpose of the whole?) Have a comparison e.g. with the revelations by Snowden. M. K. Shen >>>> The press might prefer >>>> obtaining such anonymous encrypted messages. The public key is simply >>>> announced in the media. (No certificates and CAs are needed at all!) >>> >>> I'm sure the press would be happy to obtain anybody's secrets. Which it >>> would immediately publish. >> >> I disagree. See above. > > You've clearly never fucked a journalist. >