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Explain to me how a PGP web-of-trust can be MITM'd? Presumably you exchange keys in person?
by orblivion 13y ago
Explain to me how a PGP web-of-trust can be MITM'd? Presumably you exchange keys in person?
- aianus 13y agoThe govt coerces somebody you trust (either directly or through the web of trust) to hand over their private keys and then begins impersonating them.
- orblivion 13y agoWell, this was circumvented here, right? The guy revoked his cert. That's what revocation is for. I guess the next step is a secret law that makes this illegal?
- aianus 13y agoOr they detain you so you can't revoke it
- dobbsbob 13y agoThe intelligence court can if wants dish out secret punishment, so according to the Washington Post if they find you in contempt you will be held in a communications management unit, which is basically max security where they put terrorists. You are forbidden from ever talking to anybody while inside and nobody can know you are there, because it would leak the national security secrets of the specific case so basically the secret police make you vanish off the face of the earth until you cooperate. How did this become legal
- orblivion 13y agoAlso, honestly, the govt could coerce you into being a mole for that matter, right?
- tedks 13y agoCrypto is no substitute for tradecraft.