Re: Physical security lapses will getcha every time.
Fact Two: That's why you won't see messages from me either (a.) signed with PGP, or (b.) encrypted with PGP from any of my other e-mail accounts. All are UNIX (open) environments and I don't like the implications of the possibilities of my secret key being exposed, even if I do trust the folks I work with. Call me a schizoid.
Of course, this doesn't make the UNIX versions of PGP useless. There is absolutely no reason why you can't run your own personal Unix box. Really all you need is a 386 machine with Linux or 386BSD. The nice thing about the UNIX/Linux setup, is that you can still use all the UNIX tools to send/receive encrypted mail (your favourite mail user agent+pgp/ripem+UUCP+sendmail/smail) in a convenient way without messing with MSDOS. Mark -- Mark Henderson markh@wimsey.bc.ca (personal account) RIPEM key available by key server/finger/E-mail MD5OfPublicKey: F1F5F0C3984CBEAF3889ADAFA2437433
Of course, this doesn't make the UNIX versions of PGP useless. There is absolutely no reason why you can't run your own personal Unix box. Really all you need is a 386 machine with Linux or 386BSD.
Yeah. Or even run BSDI on your 386SX notebook. That's what I'm doing. I don't want to use DOS, with all it's cruft. Much prefer a system I have full source code to...
The nice thing about the UNIX/Linux setup, is that you can still use all the UNIX tools to send/receive encrypted mail (your favourite mail user agent+pgp/ripem+UUCP+sendmail/smail) in a convenient way without messing with MSDOS.
Yeah. And... Well... I don't want to get into any religious battles, but I still prefer BSDI (the support is great and the networking code is much more stable) over Linux - and yes, I do know Linux was develped out here in Finland... Julf
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Johan Helsingius
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