On 06/10/2011 09:34 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Edward Ned Harveyb...@nedharvey.com wrote:
Go get a free certificate from
a signature with a free CA cert deserves no trust - it verifies the
email address was the email address on a certain date only.
I find that
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I am very surprised to hear people using the term PGP as if it were
synonymous with Email signing/encryption. As far as I'm concerned, S/MIME
has already won the war on email signing/encryption.
I wish that were true, but can you name any organization that routinely
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:05 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, using S/MIME means handing off control of
who I trust to an unknown mix of government and corporate entities
who have no vested interest in actually protecting my privacy.For the
corporate entities
On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
Go get a free certificate from
a signature with a free CA cert deserves no trust - it verifies the
email address was the email address on a certain date only.
On 06/10/2011 12:44 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I am very surprised to hear people using the term PGP as if it were
synonymous with Email signing/encryption. As far as I'm concerned, S/MIME
has already won the war on email signing/encryption.
I wish that were true, but
On Jun 10, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
What we need is a mechanism to distribute and verify public keys.
You've just described a certificate authority: a mechanism that distributes and
verifies public keys (certificates). What we need is a verification mechanism
that is
John Abreau wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, using S/MIME means handing off control of
who I trust to an unknown mix of government and corporate entities
who have no vested interest in actually protecting my privacy.For the
corporate entities involved, their only vested interest is short-term
On 06/10/2011 02:06 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On Jun 10, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
What we need is a mechanism to distribute and verify public keys.
You've just described a certificate authority: a mechanism that distributes
and verifies public keys (certificates). What we need
Mark Woodward wrote:
OTR encrypts an IM TCP stream so that agents between the two end points
shouldn't be able to read the data.
Technically, I believe OTR encrypts the message, which then gets handed
off to the particular IM protocol, which in turn is transported via TCP.
I imagine there is a
On 06/10/2011 08:50 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Mark Woodward wrote:
OTR encrypts an IM TCP stream so that agents between the two end points
shouldn't be able to read the data.
Technically, I believe OTR encrypts the message, which then gets handed
off to the particular IM protocol, which in turn is
Isaac Asimov had a famous short story with that title.
I hadn't heard of Phillip K. Dick using the title.
Asimov's story was about a history professor who was
obsessed with ancient Carthage, and he was denied use
of the government's time viewer to do his research. He
then recruited a young
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