Re: Lack of PGP signatures
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 7:38 AM 7/3/96 +0000, Brad Shantz wrote:
PGP is a pain for encrypting or signing e-mail when you have to save your message out to a temp file, encrypt it, and load it back in to your mail package.
On my Mac I just entered this answer, cut it to the clipboard, launched PGP, clearsigned it, and pasted the result back into the Eudora window for the new mail. Bill -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQB1AwUBMdqyT9QgMXPCzT+1AQF35QMAiUM/5pVLwh41m0KncAiW+kms0d/GWn2W C8RNwQpzanwEBaNyCpd/MSPdMAz5+YRrstnmp9MqGwbKMbsW4frqb86Dxdpgp2/f qnwHvik9PlU/K81unAPij83MulSuysdJ =feiY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet may fairly be | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | regarded as a never-ending | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | worldwide conversation. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
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At 7:38 AM 7/3/96 +0000, Brad Shantz wrote:
PGP is a pain for encrypting or signing e-mail when you have to save your message out to a temp file, encrypt it, and load it back in to your mail package.
On my Mac I just entered this answer, cut it to the clipboard, launched PGP, clearsigned it, and pasted the result back into the Eudora window for the new mail.
Bill
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With our mailers, you simply hit the reply key. Of course, it is PEM rather than PGP. But with automated key management PEM can be a lot easier to use than PGP with its key ring -- and most implementations don't require you to use the restrictive IETF certificiate hierarchy. See www.secureware.com Charlie Watt SecureWare, Inc. -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----
On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Charles Watt wrote:
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And then there's the part about it being ugly as sin for people with non-crypto-aware clients, and a performance hit for people with clients that are crypto-aware. -rich
"Rich" == Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu> writes:
Rich> On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Charles Watt wrote:
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Rich> And then there's the part about it being ugly as sin ... (defun gnus-article-hide-pem (&optional arg) "Toggle hiding of any PEM headers and signatures in the current article. If given a negative prefix, always show; if given a positive prefix, always hide. Adapted from gnus-article-hide-pgp." (interactive (gnus-hidden-arg)) (unless (gnus-article-check-hidden-text 'pem arg) (save-excursion (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer) (let ((props (nconc (list 'gnus-type 'pem) gnus-hidden-properties)) buffer-read-only end) (widen) (goto-char (point-min)) ;; hide the horrendously ugly "header". (and (search-forward "\n-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----\n" nil t) (setq end (1+ (match-beginning 0))) (gnus-hide-text end (if (search-forward "\n\n" nil t) (match-end 0) (point-max)) props)) ;; hide the trailer as well (and (search-forward "\n-----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----\n" nil t) (gnus-hide-text (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0) props)))))) -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.
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