-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Michael Conlen scribbles:
Thats what that thing was susposed to be. I got the same things with pine, which I know is susposed to be mime aware. Anyway all this talk about it gave me an idea. A PGP mime extention, where your mail says that you have a PGP encoded message, enter secret pass phrase to contiue. I think this would do a couple of things
This is out in draft form.
First get PGP installed on more machines. Sys Admins who install MIME aware applications would almost be required to install PGP beacuse it is a part of MIME.
Just like they are almost required to install MS Word because of the existance of application/ms-word? Speaking as a SysAdmin, if it were a limited use item, where only a few people wanted it, I would show the users how to set up their own MIME handling, like metamail's .mailcap file.
Secone more people would be introduced to PGP. The first time they use a MIME aware application ie. PINE they would be given a message that they do not have a public/private key set up, ect. That time could be used to explain the basics of encryption, public/private key's, and security issuse of using PGP.
Only if the user chose to send things in application/pgp (or is it text/pgp?) If they chose to send text/plain, they'd never have to deal with PGP. Forcing PGP down people's throats is not a way of winning "converts." You need to convince them of the need, they present well-integrated tools that make it simple. If you try to force people to use PGP, they'll find work-arounds and do what they can to avoid it. Bob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLvCae+S0CjsjWS0VAQHYrgP/ZtHYxq1iVJmDMlMj3GIwfKfTGm+Dka63 8i1z1b5tRaML26Ny+P47ssGINAwA3/d5TsOH8VUh5ZhVVYZ7+paveS1rNBcKf8ek JtnpSVrJ2QCW5QEamEs8wUUQJeHB1qGw85GLR56b1+YOQlI5qQ/DYDlI8Ip6xH3h T+Pqo3zBGiA= =x+8K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----