-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 3 May 1996, Steve wrote:
Unless the information is "secret," why bother? It adds extra time at his office's end (you don't think Leahy types in his password to PGP do you?), and it accomplishes little.
I agree with you to this point... Personally, I don't encrypt or even sign anything I send out, unless there is a reason to. For most of the mail I send out, I don't care if third parties read it, and most of it is so unimportant that if it were altered (highly unlikely) I wouldn't care. In fact, I can't recall the last time I encrypted a message (but I've signed a couple recently).
Since I use UNIX, I have set up the mailing program so that it actually takes extra effort to not sign something. I have nothing to lose by signing my e-mail messages. Yes, I know that not everyone in the world uses UNIX and I don't know if there is a transparent mailing interface for Windoze or Macintosh. As for encryption, I encrypt a lot of my messages because if I only encrypted "secret" messages, that would automatically draw suspicion to every encrypted message that I send. I also always use ssh to log into my UNIX shell account. I know the probability of someone intercepting my password is low, but again I have nothing to lose.
Now that's just plain un-cypherpunk of you. If people want to use PGP, let them use PGP! There are so many scripts etc. out there to make using PGP almost transparent, so decrypting your mail shouldn't be any harder than pressing a couple keys and typing in your passphrase. (I know, the passphrase is the killer.)
As I said above, there is plenty of integration between PGP and UNIX mailers, but such is not the case for Windoze and Macintosh. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xf9b22ba5 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 "The concept of normalcy is just a conspiracy of the majority" -me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMYpgfbZc+sv5siulAQFF1QP8DHrxzW3pkBxmHzWqUy5N79f3ECr2JJZa IFwwFnbj9T5d2ueqG7Ec7sGLk/HE4CfPky4WfZrRzJ3tNYOcgegYdKmvJ7Dv6W8z A5QSRtDo6YMko43goQgglXzuYDN65sBwwpIHoA6Qm2mjwSykBnmwrUJexOvR0aw9 gYBwt7pLYL0= =LdvT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----