Has Tim turned anti-PGP?

[Mark M.]

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On Fri, 3 May 1996, Steve wrote:

> > Unless the information is "secret," why bother? It adds extra time at his
> > office's end (you don't think Leahy types in his password to PGP do you?),
> > and it accomplishes little.
> 
> I agree with you to this point... Personally, I don't encrypt or even sign
> anything I send out, unless there is a reason to. For most of the mail I
> send out, I don't care if third parties read it, and most of it is so
> unimportant that if it were altered (highly unlikely) I wouldn't care. In
> fact, I can't recall the last time I encrypted a message (but I've signed
> a couple recently).

Since I use UNIX, I have set up the mailing program so that it actually takes
extra effort to not sign something.  I have nothing to lose by signing my
e-mail messages.  Yes, I know that not everyone in the world uses UNIX and
I don't know if there is a transparent mailing interface for Windoze or
Macintosh.  As for encryption, I encrypt a lot of my messages because if I
only encrypted "secret" messages, that would automatically draw suspicion
to every encrypted message that I send.  I also always use ssh to log into my
UNIX shell account.  I know the probability of someone intercepting my
password is low, but again I have nothing to lose.

> Now that's just plain un-cypherpunk of you. If people want to use PGP, let
> them use PGP! There are so many scripts etc. out there to make using PGP
> almost transparent, so decrypting your mail shouldn't be any harder than
> pressing a couple keys and typing in your passphrase. (I know, the
> passphrase is the killer.)

As I said above, there is plenty of integration between PGP and UNIX mailers,
but such is not the case for Windoze and Macintosh.

- -- Mark

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