pgp/gnupg

Patrick McManus mcmanus at AppliedTheory.com
Fri Oct 5 19:46:04 EDT 2001


some folks are really into the privacy aspects - via encryption..

however, to me, the authentication is more import.. email is extremely
easy to forge (and just a little bit harder to forge well).. good
public key cryptography lets you know who you're talking to with a
higher degree of certainty.

-P

[dan moylan: Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:30:39PM +0000]
> 
> John Abreau wrote:
> > I'm also curious how many of us actually use PGP or GnuPG.
> 
> i for one have never had occasion to use either, and only vaguely
> understand what would occasion its necessity.
> 
> naive participant in blu discussions,
> dan moylan
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