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If you're encrypting it, it is to hide information from some sort of attacker, not the trusted recipient of the document. If there is literally no possibility a
by rpearl 10y ago
If you're encrypting it, it is to hide information from some sort of attacker, not the trusted recipient of the document. If there is literally no possibility at all of someone else intercepting the document, then why are you bothering to encrypt in the first place?
- arjie 10y agoBecause the wire is unsafe.
- rpearl 10y agoIn which case the considerations in the featured article apply entirely to any attacker with access to the wire/transit. Your original comment makes no sense.
- arjie 10y agoNo. The considerations in the article apply to certain kinds of input under certain conditions. Those caveats mean it doesn't apply to self-generated text documents encrypted all at once, in general.