Real Cyber-Spying

phr1 writes: "Kevin Poulsen has an article at The Register about a USAF sergeant arrested for emailing classified info to "Country A" (apparently Libya). The guy was something of a bozo, using free webmail accounts from locations near his home to email the stuff. It's an interesting read about a legitimate (for once) cyber-bust."

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Re:Crypto-foolish

[Kryptonomic]

I mean, use a 2048-bit PGP key, and you'll probably be home free...

Unless, of course, the FBI gets a search warrant, raids your house and copies your secret key from your hard drive (or floppy disk, if you've tried to be that careful).

Or would they have to have a search warrant at all. Just carry out in illegal search, copy the key and just claim in court that you cracked the encryption using a new, classified method that cannot be revealed "for obvious reasons" (as in the keyboard logger case).

Re:Crypto-foolish

[viper21]

That is exactly why I memorize my PGP key. Sometimes it takes me 2 minutes to type the whole thing in from a terminal.

It's a lot safer in my head. And if they try to MAKE me tell them, by the time I become submissive the numbers will jumble together and I will have forgotten it. Can a floppy do that? I think not.

-S