Sixpack Encryption Email client

[measl at mfn.org]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Eric Murray wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:12:38PM -0800, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
> > I gave a little bit of thought about what an encrypted email client 
> > should look like for joe sixpack to use.  Here's how the DEFAULT
> > behavior would work:
> > 
> > When you install the   software, it generates a public-private key
> > pair. It saves your private key right there on your hard disk
> > unencrypted, no tricky passphrase to remember.  It then uploads
> > your private key to some central server.
> 
> you meant uploads your public key to some central server.

Actually, this being Joe Sixpack, I believe "private key" was correct -
gotta make sure he can "recover" it after he loses it ;-)

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J.A. Terranson
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should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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