Re: [WedTech] Fwd: Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum -NYTimes.com
Posted by
Steve Smith on
Aug 09, 2013; 4:19am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-WedTech-Fwd-Russia-Grants-Snowden-1-Year-Asylum-NYTimes-com-tp7583572p7583607.html
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>> Is there any other benefit?
> The double encryption has to do with the treatment of passphrases and
> private keys (see below). The text below is from the Google cache of
> Lavabit's former website. Reliably defeating this would mean changing
> how their software works (misrepresenting the company to their
> customers), which is the heavy-handed PRISM technique.
got it, "double encryption" seems a little misleading of a term... but
encrypting an encrypted message didn't make much if any more sense
either. I guess I assumed that encrypting private keys was (also)
standard practice? Maybe not.
Yes, it seems like Lavabit is now going to be compromised with their
users... if they stand back up, it will always be suspected that they
were "turned"?
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