Relevance of PGP?

[markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org (Mark Woodward)]

On 06/10/2011 08:02 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
>> Actually, yes.  I use OTR myself. The connection piece, of course, needs
>> to propagate the key from the IM to email and web browser.
> Oh, wait.  By "private" you mean "anonymous"?

Well, actually there are two things that encryption can provide by 
definition:
(1) Secure communications.
(2) Verified communications.

Anonymous communications, not so much.

OTR encrypts an IM TCP stream so that agents between the two end points 
shouldn't be able to read the data.

> --Rich P.
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