I don't really see the point. I have never seen anyone try to impersonate a member of the CLUG executive, nor can I think of a good reason why anyone would want to do it. I had GPG setup a few years ago, but I couldn't find a good use for it. I love the idea of encryption, because we know that there are a number of governments including our own monitoring our transmissions, but unless there is a critical mass of people using GPG, there is no point to it.
Jesse On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 16:12 -0600, Jarrod Major wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2005 9:23 am, Trevor Lauder wrote: > > On September 25, 2005 03:31 am, Travis Rousseau wrote: > > > I was just thinking i maybe shouldn't of shown this because now anyone > > > could anounce anything as if they are shawn to the list > > > > That is why everyone should sign emails with GPG or something similar :P > > Here, here! I wholeheartedly agree with this. If the Executive started > sending > email signed with their GPG keys and the rest of us on the list had their > public keys we would KNOW it was from them. > > Fabulous idea Trevor, now why didn't I think of that? <grin> > > Actually, I proposed the idea to the Executive I was a party to and I also > suggested this to Shawn a little while ago. Promoting the adoption of GPG > would be great for us all. We were a little technically challenged but > there's no excuse now. > > GPG is available for any OS, so there's no limitation if you aren't running > Linux. Not all email clients support it but I _believe_ you can still check > the validity of a message regardless of what client you use. You may have to > jump through a couple hoops but you can do it. > > How many more reasons do you need to give it a go? I can tutor anyone in the > use of GPG. This will depend on MY availability but I offer it to anyone out > there. I'm on IRC or Skype frequently so I could easily walk someone through > the mechanics of the procedure. Again, > http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html is the best resource and it is > written very plainly. Not hard to get up and running with this. The only > thing to keep in mind is that if you want the ability to sign messages as > well as the ability to encrypt them, you will need to select DSA and ElGamel. > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
