Re:PGP needs to be retired in honor
by falcolas on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:38PM
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> pgp does not provide anonymity
Not quite true.
> every message has the recipient keyid in plaintext
The keys are not required to be centralized in any particular location. There is no way to tie a key to an individual, unless that individual wants to be associated with that key id.
It's common practice to post anonymous, encrypted messages on mailing lists or newsgroups. All you can really tell in those cases is that the recipient is a member of that mailing list or subscribes to the newsgroup (though it's not for sure, with the use of remailers, etc).
Not quite true.
> every message has the recipient keyid in plaintext
The keys are not required to be centralized in any particular location. There is no way to tie a key to an individual, unless that individual wants to be associated with that key id.
It's common practice to post anonymous, encrypted messages on mailing lists or newsgroups. All you can really tell in those cases is that the recipient is a member of that mailing list or subscribes to the newsgroup (though it's not for sure, with the use of remailers, etc).