On 12/05/2008 10:54 PM, Anders Rundgren:
This is why IM kills S/MIME because the latter does not require awkward saving of keys in eternity.
Anders, the issue is the way a program decides to store a message. IM is instantly, but if your IM history is stored in an encrypted form by the very same key which was used to transfer the data and you'll loose the key, than you can forget about your history...
...I don't see the difference between mail and IM in this respect, because there is no difference. As long as you want to have access to something which was encrypted you must retain its key. Failing to do so will result in loss of data. That's correct for any encryption, don't know what else you expect.
If you loose your master password of your favored mail client (assuming that to be Thunderbird or SeaMonkey ;-) ), you'll have lost all your *locally* stored mail. What's now soooo exciting about loosing a key (beyond good practices to back 'em up)?
More than that, if you loose your account with Skype (say you used an email address which doesn't exist anymore and you lost your login credentials), you'll have lost your history as well...(well, wait, Skype stores the history on the local disk as html pages for everyone to view....outshhhh).
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