In Garfinkel's book, he talks about the risks of running PGP on a multiuser system where others (sys. admins, eg) have higher levels of authority than you do. I have PGP installed on my pc and if I want to use it, I can save the message in ascii, then upload it to the server where I have my Internet account, then mail it. maybe not entirely transparent, but at least it seems to me that the convenience of running it on the server with something like Mr. Wilcox's BAP is not worth the added risk. Besides, how often do you need to use it? -- pjp ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 12:03:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Henry W. Farkas <hfarkas@ims.advantis.com> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Auto-pgp for pine/elm/tin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Does anyone know of an addon to the Pine mailer that supports PGP? the only PGP software i could find required me to first compose a letter in an editor then run it through a pgp signature program then finally read it into my favorite mailer.
I'm looking for something that is hopefully transparent, or if not relatively quick to do. ________________________________________________________________________ Sameer Manek Seawolf@challenger.atc.fhda.edu ________________________________________________________________________
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes, it exists, and I'm using it now. I've tried competing products and found this to be the cleanest, smoothest and easiest to install. I have no personal, commercial or financial interest in this product. It does "auto-pgp" for pine, elm and tin. *********************************************************************** * BAP v.1.01 * * Written August 1995 by Bryce Wilcox * * e-mail: <bryce.wilcox@colorado.edu> * * PGP key id: <617C6DB9> * * snail mail: <2228 Canyon Blvd, Apt. 1E, Boulder, CO, 80302> * * URL: <http://cs.colorado.edu/~wilcoxb/home.html> * * BETA TEST VERSION! DO NOT DISTRIBUTE! * * (Note that documentation, among other things, is still unfinished.) * *********************************************************************** I also found the author responsive to my comments and suggestions. Just please do *-NOT-* put your pass phrase in a cleartext file! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =========================================================================== Henry W. Farkas | Me? Speak for IBM? Fat chance. hfarkas@ims.advantis.com |------------------------------------------------ hfarkas@vnet.ibm.com | http://newstand.ims.advantis.com/henry henry@nhcc.com | http://www.nhcc.com/~henry - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP 6.2.2 Key fingerprint: AA D0 F5 44 C1 8C 11 52 B3 80 34 1C CE 38 EC 53 Public key at: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu, and other popular key servers. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by Henry's Hardware: Home of the Pretty Good Hack "We're not fast, but it's not bad, and we're cheaper than the guy down the street!" =========================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Auto-signed with Bryce's Auto-PGP v1.0beta iQCVAwUBMD30WaDthkLkvrK9AQF6sQP/fVen7ZI4DbgC14y+NPdZYOjaRQ9/jQNT d4StD638OoBRkO7b8efiTd/rNULwuzSPKDiplKwRdE8Bboh4FdSWYvz6wfqgNJcd D3imouQcEt+erjEC2H5haQyZwBHeNNR9mTYhkzoBt4+jMqsRCECduaExyHUOTWFj euOkRqTJ0l4= =2q74 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----