-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Seems the demise of PGP in favor of S/MIME has been somewhat exaggerated. Blurb in this week's InfoWorld led me to http://www.ftp.com/mkt_info/onnet32/tr-pgp.htm It would be a mistake, though, to say that they have a clue: E-mail compatibility Most e-mail systems can send and receive only plain text (technically, 7-bit ASCII characters). So PGP converts the encrypted information (which is 8-bit) into plain ASCII text using the radix-64 algorithm. This has a side effect that enhances security even when you don't use encryption. If you merely add authentication to the message, radix-64 still converts the whole message using its own algorithm. The resulting message -- even though it's not securely encrypted -- looks garbled to the casual snoop. D'Oh! - -rich censor the internet! http://www.stanford.edu/~llurch/potw2/ boycott fadetoblack! http://www.fadetoblack.com/prquest.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBMe1rFJNcNyVVy0jxAQEZHQH/aDm0unOzogxpzm+Cj/XozLvLIhrwnTt8 JZR+KH1CVONifOhwCdQsEn7aoH4YbhbolaWZBH0FG99g2KHbGhmbMA== =QSLW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----