What email encryption is actually in use?

[David W. Hodgins]

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If you signed your messages on a regular basis, it would let me know 
whether or not you're the same Tim May, I've been reading since back
when toad.com was the only server for the list.

If you're key was signed by anyone I've dealt with, who I know will 
actually check your id, it would increase my confidence that you
really are Tim May, and not just a net persona.

It doen't make one iota of difference, whether you choose to 
distribute your key or not.  Your ideas are usually thought
provoking,
and consistent enough to form a persona in the minds of the list
readers. Or at least, in mine.

I know you know (whether or not you agree) with the above.  It just
struck me as humourous that you'd sign the post, with the comment 
to the effect that there isn't much point in doing so, with a key
that isn't on the servers.

Do you see the PGP web of trust as completly useless?

As to who I am, well...

I'm a programmer, living in London, Ont. Canada.

I've been lurking, off and on, since 94 or so.  I don't think I've
actually posted anything to the list since back in 96, when I 
wrote a freeware program to simplify using PGP with dos based
offline mail readers (MPI.ZIP).

While I normally promote privacy issues, only with those I meet
face to face, I still consider myself a cypherpunk.  I normally
only post to the list, when my point of view isn't being 
expressed by any of the regular posters.

Regards, Dave Hodgins.

Tim May wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 06:14  PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> 
> >
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> > The advantages really disappear, when the key used to sign the
> > message
> > isn't sent to the key servers {:.
> >
> 
> Those who need to know, know.
> 
> You, I've never seen before. Even if you found my key at the
> Liberal Institution of Technology, what would it mean?
> 
> Parts of the PGP model are ideologically brain-dead. I attribute
> this to left-wing peacenik politics of some of the early folks.
> 
- --Tim May

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