The pain of encrypting email

Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

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Because premail makes it incredibly easy to use PGP on a unix box.

"Incredibly easy" is an exaggeration, since the docs themselves say that you need root privileges to install premail properly. The alternative is using premail in stand-alone mode, i.e., entering your mail line-by-line a la the generic mail program! Now, I think premail is beautiful, but the bottom line is that at this point it's not something I can actually use, like most email-encrypting tools I hear about, alas. --Dave.