On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 18:12 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2005 17:18, Jesse Kline wrote: > > but I couldn't find a good use for it > > i thought that's what this thread was about =)
You have a point, but my point was that I still don't see a good use for it unless I am part of a criminal network where everyone is using the tool, so that we can pass messages without fearing their interception by big brother. > > but unless there is a critical mass of people using GPG, there is no point > > to it. > > and just how do you get critical mass? ;) Until the business world, and regular users on all platforms start to see a need for the software, it's not going to reach that critical mass. Seeing as how the technology has been around for a decade or so, I don't see it happening in the near future. > and to be honest, you don't need critical mass to make GPG useful. you just > need enough of the people you correspond with regularly using it. that's a > different thing entirely. That's true, if all my friends and business acquaintances used it then I would see a good use for it. My point is not that there are no good uses for the software, I just feel that you need enough people using it in order to make it worth while. As I said before, I think the real nice thing about the software is the encryption but it doesn't help if no one can decrypt it. Jesse _______________________________________________ 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
