Re: Crypto wars redux?
Dave Howe <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:53:19 +0000
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On 21/01/2015 20:06, Roland Perry wrote: > In article <54BEBDA9.7080304-puGfsi27rH1aa/[email protected]>, Dave Howe > <DaveHowe-puGfsi27rH1aa/[email protected]> writes >>> And everyone else is probably forgetting that gathering information >>> about who is contacting who, is most of the time just as valuable as >>> what was actually said. >> >> And yet, they already HAVE that (in spades, if the story at >> http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/gchq-intercepted-emails-journalists-ny-times-bbc-guardian-le-monde-reuters-nbc-washington-post >> >> is anything to go by) but apparently that isn't good enough? > > Were those emails encrypted? Probably not, but from a metadata point of view (Your "who is contacting who" ) I doubt that matters. sender, recipient, and subject line are seldom protected in end-to-end crypto, although obviously TLS would obfuscate that.