Jeremy Blosser wrote: > On Feb 01, Mike Schiraldi [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > Part of the problem with PGP is that only "people that know enough > > to care" use it. My goal is to be able to communicate securely and > > privately with everyone -- even Outlook and Netscape users. > > The people you are likely to coorespond with that wouldn't be able to > take advantage of it would also likely not need to, either because > they didn't know enough to care or because they would be [American] > end users who wouldn't have the same kind of per-minute costs or poor > quality connections. yeah i think the issue is not so much of technical sophistication (although that's an issue too) as of the fact that most people Don't Care. 99% of the people i correspond with simply don't care, so i generally don't bother to encrypt or sign my communications with them. also, there are pgp front ends and plugins for most browsers/ email clients; obviously this isn't as good as built in support, but from what i've seen it's not rocket science. however the fact is - using any sort of encryption requires some amount of technical sophistication, as you have to understand some of the more subtle issues at work (both technical issues, and issues of trust). encryption used by someone without at least a basic understanding is worse (IMHO) than none at all. i don't think the difficulty of PGP is totally a bad thing - PGP is designed in such a way that you HAVE to come to a basic understanding of some of these issues in order to use it. w
