In reply to davidbeynon:
> In principle a personal computer is perfectly capable of giving you secure encryption, given the right software. That's why the government want to make the software illegal.
> If I was paranoid I would say the legistation is more a reaction to the finding and patching of security holes in OpenSSL as much as anything else.
Rubbish..... PGP has been available and downloadable for years I have keys that I created in 1996.
Your very naive (my word for the day) There are lots of ways that encryption can be compromised i.e how do you know that the encryption software that you're using hasn't been messed with? how do you know that the OS your using can't detect you creating keys and mess with the 'randomness' As Snowden has shown us the pervasiveness of the Govt. digital surveillance effort is astounding.
Then there's RIPA that makes it illegal to not provide plain txt of any encrypted message.
Here's a message sent in 1997ish if anyone feels they'd like to have a go at cracking it!
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=6TFZ
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
Clue is its a couple of sentences on what a sh1t I was having.
Post edited at 18:14