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Subject: [Discuss] email privacy/security
From: kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:28:59 -0400
In-reply-to: <52000F03.9070400@gmail.com>
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On 08/05/2013 04:45 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> You're assuming that the NSA needs to crack everything. I'm assuming 
> that they have master keys for the public certificate authorities.

That doesn't give them session keys for communications.  And they don't 
have a private key that they don't have.  A self-signed certificate is 
still good.  And though a commercially certificate can be spoofed, when 
Verisign signs a certificate, the private key is not magically produced.

-kb

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