On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:04:41 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andre_Mari=EBn?= said:
> It may be just me, but I am getting confused.
If the front-end box is compromised, the attacker holds all the keys that
are active on that box. If you're using symmetric crypto, the attacker
can easily decrypt the data (for instance, if he finds it left lying around
on the disk, or taps the communication channel, etc). if you use some
asymmetric scheme, they can't use the key they have gotten to decrypt.
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