From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 23:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Yes, some of you PGP fans may say "Sigh!" when you hear that I don't particularly like downloading-and-then-decrypting a message only to find it saying, "Gee, Tim, isn't this PGP stuff really neat?" Too bad. Actually, my sigh included a bit of ``Gee, I thought this guy was supposed to be one of the mega-rich, so why's he so low-tech that he can't run PGP, etc at home.'' As to the security, using PGP in the way that I do routinely is more secure than not using it -- the number of people who have the special access that would ease the cracking effort is limited. Also, the key that I advertise is not my only key. To the best of my knowledge, my secure key pair has never had either the public or private part touch a hard disk, much less a network. I'm happy that you PGP fans are thoroughly infatuated with using PGP for everything. Just knock off the clucking and sighing about those who don't see it as the end-all and be-all of today's communications. It reeks of fanaticism. Oh puhleeeze . . . . Trying to get strong crypto to be commonplace is hardly the most fanatical thing that gets discussed on this list. Rick