Re: privacy on Unix-servers

From: phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Date: 01/23/03 

From: phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:39:02 +0000 (UTC)

steve <icestore@web.de> wrote:
>> > Very probably you can't know how this is in my special case, but maybe
>> > there are some standards in the Unix-OS architecture that make an
>> > intrusion into the privacy impossible.
>>
>> PGP will take you very far, and this on _any_ architecture.

> What do you mean by PGP will take me very far ?
> Do you mean it can protect my data on the server?

Yes, to a large extent. See www.pgpi.com for details.

Interesting details are that your private key is never stored on disk
in unencrypted form, you always have to supply a passphrase.

> btw: Is the ZIP-encrypting routine version2.7 as safe as PGP?
> ...or can you call it safe even if it is not as good as PGP?

No. 

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