hushmail

[DB3]

I know why people use excryption. But it would seem to me if the government wanted to crack the code it could and would. If I was trying to catch wrongdoings I would search encrypted messages first before looking at regular e-mail. How does some of the more experienced guys feel about this?

 

[manny78]

Dont worry they try just like some Hackers do... but it aint that easy. They also tried to ban hte use of encrypted e-mails, but for some obvious reasons they fail (just like mp3 sharing). One day they'll probably reach their goal.... but be sure that stronger encrypted technology will already be available.

Cant stop the progress, you just can admire it

 

[DB3]

I do not really know how it works but, it his hard to imagine with the resources available to our government that they would have a hard time decoding it.

 

[The Iron Game]

If you were in a car srash at 50 kph, would you rather be in a Lada or a Mercedes. I know my call

 

[VTAT]

Let me put it this way - there is case law that says that you have no expectation of privacy for garbage you put in front of your house for the garbage man to pick up. So the government can search through it all they want without a warrant. It's similar with email - unsecured email can be easily read anywhere along the path from your computer to the recipient. With encription though, there is a clear expectation of privacy, so if some law enforcement agency tries to use information obtained from encrypted email without a seach warrant, the defendant can have that evidence excluded from trial as an illegal search, violating your constitutional right. They would have to get a warrant from a judge to read your encrypted email, and that takes a lot of proof to show that you are most likely involved in a crime.

 

[Digital Ronin]

Do a search on "hushmail" or "Subject Line" and you should find a thread that Conan69 posted earlier talking about how difficult 128bit encryption is to crack...

 

[lincoln]

Hushmail is encrypted using the same tech as SSL. 128 Bit encryption breaks a 16 digit credit card number into millions of pieces and then reassembles it when it reaches where it is going.

The FBI has a system called "The Carnivore" that theu place on servers that are suspected to be conducting illegal activity. From all the tech writings I have read their system monitors without anyone knowing it is there. It does not unencrypt anything.

For them to read an email that is encrypted it would be like putting together a 128 million piece puzzle!

 

[Zyglamail]

If you want encryption, your best bet is to use pgp and do the encrypting/unencrypting on your own PC. After all with elite/hushmail etc, the encryption is only in place when going to other compatable mail hosts. With pgp you mail is encrypted until someone with the public key unencrypts it.

As for breaking it, 128bit plus is very hard and time consuming to break and pgp handles encryption scheemes a lot more secure than 128 bit.

 

[nandroloner]

I don't know if it's our slow network here or what, but hell, it takes me FOREVER sometimes to get into my own damned hushmail! Seriously, at 128 bit encryption, and each sender/reciever has his own "key" it would take forever to crack it, even on a computer.

 

[droid]

Can my work read my hushmail???