Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government 303
teknopurge writes "Apparently Hushmail has been providing information to law enforcement behind the backs of their clients. Billed as secure email because of their use of PGP, Hushmail has been turning over private keys of users to the authorities on request. 'DEA agents received three CDs which contained decrypted emails for the targets of the investigation that had been decrypted as part of a mutual legal assistance treaty between the United States and Canada. The news will be embarrassing to the company, which has made much of its ability to ensure that emails are not read by the authorities, including the FBI's Carnivore email monitoring software.'"
I welcome our new (Score:3, Funny)
Re:By the authorise? (Score:1, Funny)
Remove the second t, second i, and reverse the e and the s.
(the summary was C/P'ed from TFA, so this is all I got...)
Re:Hushmail did NOTHING WRONG (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Entirely secure? (Score:4, Funny)
I know this is slashdot but I refuse to define a quick back-of-an-envelope calculation as having 8 significant digits.
Re:Alternatives? (Score:3, Funny)
I hope no one's figured out a way to factor any primes. I've gotten used to the job security of being a math teacher :)