Re: Warning about Pegasus Mail and PGP (fwd)
Okay, here's how I understand things with PGP and Pegasus. You have two options with Pegasus depending on the set-up options you choose. You can either send upon completion of your out-going email, or you can have your mail queued until you press the send out-going mail button. The actual PGP process does not occur until you actually send the mail. So the answer would be: don't queue your mail. On 9 Dec 95 at 16:24, Jon Lasser wrote:
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995 anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
I just installed the "Open Encryptor" PGP interface for Pegasus Mail. I found that when you sign a message and queue it, it stores your password in the clear on the hard drive. Apparently it doesn't sign or encrypt the message until just before transmitting it. So it stores your PGP private key password with the message until it sends it.
Can anyone verify this?
Kinda brings new meaning to the term "Open Encryptor," huh?
Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu> (410)494-3072 Visit my home page at http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ You have a friend at the NSA: Big Brother is watching. Finger for PGP key.
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