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Missing the point a little bit on 4.

Proving you're you is great if you're, say, Canonical distributing package updates to Ubuntu, where the adversary is malware distributors.

But where your adversary is eg: the FBI, then it promotes a false sense of assurance, because it's actually really easy to spoof someone if you can arrest them and force them to give the key password.



>because it's actually really easy to spoof someone if you can arrest them and force them to give the key password.

Country dependent [0]. Not enough evidence one way or the other for FBI coercing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law


s/FBI/anyone with a gun/g




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