On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 11:05:16AM -0500, Dale Raby wrote: > If it's sensitive > > enough to be encrypted outgoing, it's sensitive enough to be > > encrypted on disk... even if you haven't actually sent it yet. > > > > Well, its easy enough to encrypt the whole disk with modern OS's, so > if the message is on your machine it could be made pretty secure with > no real extra effort beyond setting it up initially for an encrypted > disk.
You make it sound like there's no downside to doing this... There is: performance. So whether or not this makes sense as a solution very much depends on your workstation's (that's a hint) use case. > I dunno though, why would you want to store a sensitive draft any > longer than you need to? The key to that sentence is the last part... > Encrypted messages should be as concise as possible Who says? What if what you're encrypting is a draft of a paper? You needed to send it to your boss/colleague/editor anyway, and your e-mail client will encrypt your postponed message (or so you might think, and so may it be, if that were implemented), so why should you care? Your entire message makes a lot of assumtions which may be just plain wrong. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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