-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 March 2003 14:10, David Herman wrote:
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:42 am, James Oakley wrote:
On Thursday 20 March 2003 03:00 pm, Chris Geske wrote:
Can anyone honestly say they have had such important emails that they had to use pgp to confirm the sender?
I know a ton of people who use to use pgp a few years ago, none of them are currently using it!
I used pgp ocasionally on my amiga years ago, but at the time I was much less active sending e-mail, I plan to start using it again (gpg) as a result of this thread.
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In these times of diminishing freedoms (in some cases a total re-definition of what freedom is), it is important to preserve the rights you have in order to save them from extinction. Signing messages helps to protect these rights merely through its visibility.
The more people who use privacy, authenticity procedures, the more dificult it becomes to restrict these rights.
Which was one of the main reasons I began using PGP/gpg on a regular basis. My belief is it should be universal. This is my way of promoting signing messages. The fact that is not universal, I think, owes to the fact that it is difficult to get that "web of trust" going. It's difficult to get the "web of trust" going, because pgp signing is not universal. BTW, the fact that the *length* of my key is offensive to some is not a selling point for me to stop using it. If, as it turns out, it is the fact that it is an ElGamal-based key rather than DSA-based key which is causing the problem will be the factor that causes me to change my key. In fact, I have already generated a 2048-bit DSA key and uploaded it to wwwkeys.us.pgp.net. I'll start using it as soon as I generate a revokation of my current key. - -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX // WB5UZG Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) http://home.satx.rr.com/mlthompson Independent Amsoil Dealer http://amsdealer.webhop.biz wget -O - http://home.satx.rr.com/mlthompson/pubkey.gpg | gpg --import - -- "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIXAwUBPnv6GtGDyPawr2auFAI5IAgAga0hY4jE6JiTqCTwjwY4BT7ga0WxojZn M2OTICT2+vSGPWv/PTBv/o3eY3ImopDrhTJebubdfGyYz5wVrfRyMAvyQh0IiKTO v/v0tflft9SaDPvoK/Q0kD9pvNBuDQYwr5+ppc+4tvyxLrTinUJLBGuYkdgsPHSb sv86GspSwf4hnsuVfmzvPggd5/tAVEHIcGgdu2i+tQmIrRHOTfbOt/MH/MH14SI8 ldr2e40j9kbFHsEIPPZaJubPzufkF0wQv60qBmj2SqD9sKDYZ1wyUW5nAijlbAWO 9IG/x7hLOS70f1uPPCLDoAu2Ab7kOKesPfZ5xVGf0a1uOGc2iYfV6gf+OnH0Sw24 k91MsOXRxPTYe4jmGp1mFcNETdHUv7pUgdxSntgH8cmoY72fN/WK/77JcAw+pgTk uN1fKTVM/PyjukhuehSTp0y8A+YsI9Tu+f5LZxKE2qfC+g1WIKbn7uPYikqs+zLW osR9+WP9SG2WvNVgqnX+SBc3uiVokKcGhSE5H4GyAIxbP0n3OrUWfk06auvd//fZ Jl3+HO8qlj1OhTzWQyvOUkGqdMCbuZGauwWjZNlPuAWjjt+2L9jnBbfzaTn2TU5d bv2JzyRQd3DfbMbiiVG7csvr2WWeAzsRL8w0PHojoRM0/IQROgvBQkqApytSjhlX 0iH0H8knci8gfQ== =zTMk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----