full-disclosure - Re: JaPCrypt

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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:42:19 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: JaPCrypt

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:59:30 PST, coderman said:

> since psk without key distribution nor secure secret exchange does not
> solve the problems that HTTPS solves, to say this is useful in
> situations where HTTPS is not available is disingenuous.

Sure. So you e-mail the shared secret in a PGP or S/MIME encrypted mail.

So saying that it doesn't work because there's no secure secret exchange
is disingenuous as well.

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