On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Dan York <dan-i...@danyork.org> wrote: > Even in the groups where PGP was (and is) being used, usage is inconsistent > in part because people are now accessing their email using different devices > and not all of them have easy access to PGP/GPG. If you receive an encrypted > message... but can only read it on your laptop/desktop and not your mobile > device, and you are not near your laptop/desktop, how useful is the > encryption if you need to read the message? You have to either wait to get > back to your system or ask the person to re-send unencrypted.
It might be worth thinking about why ssh and ssl work so well, and PGP/GPG don't. On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote: > True story: Last Saturday evening I was sitting waiting for a piano > recital to start, when I overheard the person sitting behind me (who > I happen to know is a retired chemistry professor) say to his > companion "Email is funny, you know - I've just discovered that when > you forward or reply to a message, you can just change the other > person's text by typing over it! You'd have thought they would > make that impossible." > > Yes, they should have made that impossible. Oh my, I _love_ this! This is actually the first non-covert use case I've heard described, although I'm not convinced that PGP could actually do this without message format tweaks.
