full-disclosure - Re: JaPCrypt

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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:23:49 +0100
From: Christoph Gruber <list@...u.at>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: JaPCrypt

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote on 06.02.2008 at 16:42:

> 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.

If you are able to use PGP/GPG/S/Mime you HAVE already an implemented  
PKI. Why should someone use PKI to initialize another?

-- 
Grisu

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