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Re: Failure of PKI in messaging

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Feb 15 21:29:43 2007

Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:18:31 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To:  cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20070215171156.94608.qmail@simone.iecc.com>

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 >> Suppose we have a messaging service that, like Yahoo,
 >> is also a single signon service, ...

  John Levine wrote:
 > Then you just change the attack model.

My proposal closes off the major attack path, and leaves
the trojan and virus attack path wide open.

But I have not had a trojan or a virus for a year, and
the guys at OLPC and capabilities are working on
solutions to the problem of trojans and viruses.

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