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What does 'secured by the DLP' mean?

Does Certivox retain the ability to decrypt all messages?

FYI, nothing shows on the FAQ page when blocking Javascript, which is somewhat common among the security conscious who may be your target audience.

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The only way we could decrypt the message theoretically is if you brought it to us in conjunction with a "bad actor" on our end. We're not like Hushmail, we don't actually transport your message, we just give you the ability to generate and re-generate the right encryption and decryption keys with one click. Hope that helps. Yes, many debates about the accordion and javascript usage internally. It is safe however, in case you feel adventerous on that page. Cheers, Brian

Sorry Gojomo, too much crypto-speak. DLP means discrete logarithm problem. It's what makes cracking some key distribution / agreement and crypto-systems hard to do.

http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/EllipticCurveDiscreteLoga...

Edit: Sorry, meant, "hard to break". ;-)

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