[vox] Time for a refresher talk on PGP/GPG? :)

[Ken Bloom]

On 2004.06.30 16:47, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:35:32PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > P.S. I'll take encryption more seriously when you tell me where I can
> 
> > find vox at lists.lugod.org's public key.
> 
> Some of us have discussed how a list could work with GPG.
> 
> Of course, GPG encrypting a public, archived, open list isn't exactly
> _useful_, you know.  Right? ;)

That's why I bothered to suggest it. (Although what I wanted to do was  
send that message GPG-encrypted to the list so that *nobody* could read  
it, and it would have a subject line that conveyed the entire point I  
wanted to make.)

As for TLS, TLS protects email against being snooped by someone with a  
packet sniffer. I think the odds of that kind of attack are *far* smaller  
than the odds of my email getting read off the servers it's stored on, so  
using TLS would either be very useless, or it would give people a false  
sense of security.

-- 
I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment.
See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about
signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. ***
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