Re: privacy on Unix-servers
From: ftbee (ft0bee@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/24/03
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From: ft0bee@hotmail.com (ftbee) Date: 24 Jan 2003 06:17:45 -0800
A root user can use a keylogger to record everything you type,
including the passphrase you use for encryption. So that even the
strongest encryption won't make you any safer unless you encrypt you
data on some other trusted machines.
icestore@web.de (steve) wrote in message news:<3267a3a5.0301230936.bfa99db@posting.google.com>...
> > > 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?
>
> 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?
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