The encryption key could be derived from the decryption key as easily as vice versa.
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It will prevent any additional decryption keys from being added to any field in the PGP certificate.
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In response, legislators have proposed using a technique favoured by cyber-criminals to grab Skype decryption-keys directly from suspects' computers.
He could run a special decryption program in a different part of the machine, and make the key appear there.
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When the recipient opens the e-mail, the message retrieves the decryption key from Disappearing's key server and it's displayed in decrypted form.
And it will also work to verify where additional decryption keys came from to ensure there has been no tampering of a user's certificate.
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Mullenweg countered with the fact that all Web applications must either store their database credentials in plain text or keep a plaintext decryption key around somewhere.
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Each file will then be issued a unique, sophisticated decryption key which only the file holder will control, allowing them to share the file as they choose.
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Hulton, director of applications for the high-performance computing company Pico, and Muller, a researcher for mobile security firm CellCrypt, plan to make their decryption method free and public.
In its filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the group said it believed "the intruder had access to the decryption tool for the encryption software utilized by TJX".
But after the time limit specified by the sender, the decryption key is erased from Disappearing's key server, making the message unreadable and effectively destroying it, even if the recipient stored it.
And the PGP bug arises from the mistake that PGP originally made in not ensuring that all the additional decryption keys in the data-recovery field have to be signed to prevent the tampering.
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If these card numbers were in fact stolen from the Playstation Network, it may be that the encryption Sony says it used was weak, badly implemented, or that the decryption key was included in the stolen data.
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