Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Ian G wrote: > >> To get people to do something they will say "no" >> to, we have to give them a freebie, and tie it >> to the unpleasantry. E.g., in SSH, we get a better >> telnet, and there is only the encrypted version. > > We could just as well say that "encryption of remote server sessions is > rare in everyday use". It's just that only geeks even do remote server > sessions, so they use SSH instead of telnet. > > The thing is that email is in wide use (unlike remote server sessions). > Personally I doubt that anything other than a small percentage of email > will ever be signed, let alone encrypted (heck, most people on this list > don't even sign their mail).
I don't sign mail not because I can't be bothered, but because it is my policy to not sign mail. If I signed it, it would be substantially harder to deny I wrote it. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
