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Google adds stronger encryption for some Gmail users, in beta

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Re: Window Dressing -- Is it paid for out of the Fort Meade budget?

@Orv

Quote: "...rubber-hose me for the key..."

Try again! In a D/H scheme there IS NO PERSISTENT KEY! Just a random, transient key for each message. In a D/H peer-to-peer application, the users never create a key, never see a key, never select a key...they just create or read a plain text message. Isn't mathematics wonderful!!

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