When you can communicate via email to someone who is not technical then maybe but at the moment, gpg/pgp is not ready for non-tech use. Even techs find it hard to use.
On 2013/Dec/18, at 10:27 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 21:35 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote: >>> Indeed Jim, you and anyone can have state-of-the-art email privacy right >>> now, without doing anything radically difficult or special. >> >> If you can find a secure email server. > > Not necessary - just use PGP. Or a certificate from a CA you actually > trust (hint: there are none worthy of your trust). > > Yes, GPG/PGP is a (slight) pain to set up. Yes, you need to arrange a > public key exchange before you can exchange secure emails. Yes, some > email programs don't integrate it very well. But you CAN have a secure > email exchange with someone if you want it, at the cost of a little > setup work. > > This does not protect the fact of an email exchange, the time of the > exchange, the received list and so on, but it completely protects the > content of the message. Not even the administrators of the servers your > email passes through or is stored on can access the content. > >> You still have to trust the server. > > Not with GPG/PGP. > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer ([email protected]) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > http://twitter.com/kauer389 > > GPG fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A > Old fingerprint: AE1D 4868 6420 AD9A A698 5251 1699 7B78 4EEE 6017 > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
