Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

[Tom <tom prost-net de>]

Am Montag, den 22.02.2016, 11:50 +0000 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: 
> On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 09:22 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
(...) 
> > Yes - S/MIME works by a "Trusted Third Party" issuing signed Email
> > Certificates. The only verification done by someone like Comodo when
> > they issue personal certificates is that the certificate is sent to
> > the
> > email address specified.  The advantage of S/MIME is that you do not
> > need to have verified knowledge of the sender's public key in order
> > to
> > verify the email - the public key is sent with the message and you
> > trust the party that signed the key that it belongs to the person you
> > think it does.  The disadvantage is that you put all your trust into
> > a
> > third party - it is not unknown for the signing keys from these
> > "trusted" bodies to go astray and to be abused or that someone has
> > managed to acquire a signed key for a random email address.
>
> There have also been cases of the Certificate Authority (CA) issuing
> genuine certificates to imposters. A famous case of Verisign giving out
> several Microsoft certs a few years ago comes to mind. Such certs are
> normally revoked when discovered, but revoking is another can of worms
> in itself and doesn't work all that well.

So the best way is: Don't e-mail your secrets ;-) !!!

Seems that the only rational use case for e-mail is letting the CIA or
Homeland work for you (German staircase wit since we have data
preservation. I guess yo all know it - and that should now be enough to
make myself suspicious ;-)


An Arab writes an e-mail to his son:

„Dear son, I am old and cannot any longer work in the garden. I know you
live far away in America, but could you please visit me and dig up the
garden?“

On which the son writes back:

„Dear father, we may not dig up the garden, because of the THING that
lies there.“

On the next morning a whole troop of CIA agents appears and digs up the
whole garden like crazy, finding nothing however.

Whereupon the old man gets another mail from his son:

„Well, it has been solved? That was the least I could do for you ; -) “