-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 17:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Huh? Phil almost _never_ signs his messages . . . It may very well be that he only signs messages to `public' forums or that he only signs things when he considers the message to be more important than normal, however, the majority of the messages that he has sent out to cypherpunks, alt.security.pgp, etc. in, say, the last half a year or so, have been signed. On the other hand, the one other message that I could come up with that wasn't signed was also about the debate. . . . and has talked about how difficult it is to go through the rigamarole of signing, authenticating, etc. Hmmmm. FWIW, it typically requires two keystrokes for me to do any of the half dozen PGP operations that I do most often. I've heard of at least three other emacs-based interfaces for simplifying PGP interaction and there seem to be quite a few other `helper' packages around for other email environments. (I sympathize with him, and I intensely dislike getting PGP-encrypted messages, decrypting them, only to find a banal message that wasn't worth the effort.) Perhaps you think your E-mail is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? You must be a subversive or a drug dealer if you hide your mail inside envelopes. Or maybe a paranoid nut. Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their E-mail? Ok, ok, so the above paragraph is blatant plagiarism (it's from pgpdoc1 for anyone who didn't recognize it). I encrypt most point-to-point communications with other PGP users on principle, regardless of the content. In any case, I find it quite disappointing to hear that one of the cypherpunks founders frowns on people actually using strong crypto on a routine basis. Sigh... Rick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLlrF4JNR+/jb2ZlNAQFMVgQAlZORu9O6NOpm71/Jh5gw7bhg+9+X+KY8 CNFs43OIQ9t4SYkyjln4e/5aBmGd1fZrEqSDFdvTZ1+GlC9xYsEy8Io0CsGiJ5F0 xiBTZtcq5QG5AYoJBCFmWzzM/U9/o4BRnMQUPyrMgT7lPClDxt4lSVXurLE3/Wzq UQM3hPm/d6c= =0lmk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----