On 2003.06.16 15:03 Dustin Puryear wrote: > > What prevents the "good practice that would be useful" that is emailed > tunneled using TLS/SSL is not Cox but a lack of anyone in the world > supporting it. :) PGP and S/MIME are on the other hand well supported, > quite popular, and more comprehensive solutions. TLS/SSL only secures the > communication channel while PGP and S/MIME secures the actual email message. > > Echo. > ECHO. > Echo. > ECHO.
Emphatic, but I still don't buy it. The receiving user opens the mail sent by PGP, right? What's the difference between this and the mail simply being decrypted by the user's mail server on the user's computer? In either case, the user is hosed if their machine is owned. Wouldn't it be better if everyone had a persistent connection and was able to run the best available free software? If everyone ran like that, no one would need a "relay" and the encryption was transparent to the user? > > I think it would be cool to have a topic on this at a future meeting. > Everyone interested step forward. <EVERYONE STEPS BACK BUT SCOTT.> Scott! > What a great guy! > Cool, I'd like to see that. Go Scott, or anyone else who can demonstrate PGP, GPG, kerbos and all that other fancy stuff!
