What would we do...

Posted by Nico Golde in random blurb
Friday, September 16. 2005

... if a spammer would automatically search for a public key of the victim to encrypt spam mails so we are not able anymore to use antispam software to analyse the mail?

Yet another nightmare.

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Huh? No spammer with at least a little clue will use encryption because it's just too much work, IMHO. Of course, grabbing addresses from keyservers is easy. But the encryption would just take too long, again: IMHO. Just try encrypt a message several hundreds of thousands times. Even when encrypting to multiple recipients, it's still too slow.

Oh, and you can't abuse opened up windows machines via some worm or virus as hardly one of those has pgp/gpg installed. These would be more security aware people with likely fully patched systems harder to open up.

The only problem IMHO is that you just can grab addresses from keyservers for ordinary spam. But spammers likely will find these addresses easier via other sources (web, usenet, etc.)

#1 Rocco Rutte on 2005-09-17 17:09 (Reply)

yes thats a problem too. i have not much clue about spamming practices and how much performance they have but remeber, the performance of computers is still increasing.

#2 nion (Homepage) on 2005-09-17 23:50 (Reply)

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