Using PGP on Insecure Machines

Paul Robichaux paul at poboy.b17c.ingr.com
Wed Aug 24 11:37:19 PDT 1994


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> At the risk of repeating myself, what's the problem with wrapping PGP in 
> a shell script?  Works for me - see a previous mailing, complete with 
> wrapper scripts.  I can send either encrypted or just signed email 
> without especially noticing it.

At the risk of repeating what Tim's said in the past, shellscript
wrappers are useless to people who use Macs, Windows/WinNT, and so on.

At the risk of repeating what Tim, Perry, and several others have
said, using PGP- with or without shell scripts- on a machine which you
do not physically control is also risky.

- -Paul

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