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Re:How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email by trotsky on Thursday May 12, 2011 @07:50PM (#2542845)
Hiding in plain sight has a lot of different meanings. Cryptography stands out a lot more than bickering among old men. Besides, which tools to trust? The PRC clearly distrusts many western crypto systems, why would AQ feel any differently?
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Re:How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email by JoachimSchipper on Friday May 13, 2011 @04:36AM (#2544014)
Those are good points, but he could still have, at least, used something like TrueCrypt for his archives.
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Re:How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email by troels on Friday May 13, 2011 @05:42AM (#2544095)
How do you know that CIA don't have a backdoor to TrueCrypt?
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Re:How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email by eneveu on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:34AM (#2544182)
Who cares if the CIA has a backdoor? It's still better to encrypt his archives than using plaintext. The chance the CIA might have a backdoor is lower than the chance the CIA might decipher plaintext.

Of course, you'd have to use a non-networked computer for this, in case Truecrypt phones home...

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Re:How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email by troels on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:40AM (#2544191)
Well, the article didn't say that they were archived in plain text. For what we know, it may have been encrypted with TrueCrypt, and it may be readable by CIA.
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Re:How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email by mail2345 on Thursday May 12, 2011 @11:10PM (#2543389)
If I remember correctly, there was at least one homemade cryptographic system they used in the past, but the US got a hold of it(and probably found a hole in it).
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