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The problem with PGP is that while it keeps the content of your mail exchange secret, it does not protect the information that two persons exchanged emails. So
by Xylakant 14y ago
The problem with PGP is that while it keeps the content of your mail exchange secret, it does not protect the information that two persons exchanged emails. So if the investigators have a lead to person A that sells drugs and see that he's communicating with person B that accepts payments, the might just guess what relationship the two have.
- glomph 14y agoFor that use tor to access your emails and/or use tormail.org which will not be able to disclose that information.
- dbrian 14y agoRight, that's why you use Tor. PGP provides privacy and accountability. Tor provides anonymity. Just remember you have to trust the security of the receiving party as well. Make sure not to reveal yourself with the contents of your emails since the other party might not be as disciplined with their tor and pgp use as you are.
- derrida 14y agoTor doesn't anonomise email :-/ If you want that, look for mixminion or mixmaster. Tor is a low latency mixnet for TCP streams (aka web browsing).
- dbrian 14y agoSMTP uses TCP and works over tor just fine. But you can always just use a free web mail account somewhere.
- derrida 14y agoYes, that's to fetch mail from a server. TorBirdy for instance is a plug in for Thunderbird. But! If you want to send a message alice@domain.com to bob@otherdomain.com that is not anonymous, unless you take other measures.
- DanBC 14y agoYes. There is a difference between "private" and "anonymous". Encryption often removes anonymity by tying an identity to keys and to a web of trust.