Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-01 Thread John W Noerenberg II
At 5:58 PM -0800 2/24/06, Ed Gerck wrote: A phone number is not an envelope -- it's routing information, just like an email address. Publishing the email address is not in question and there are alternative ways to find it out, such as search engines. Oh really? Then you should be able to

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-02-26 Thread John W Noerenberg II
While there is merit in arguing how to simplify the mechanics of using public key encryption for sending and receiving email, I cannot agree with this assertion: At 10:44 AM -0800 2/24/06, Ed Gerck wrote: My $0.02: If we want to make email encryption viable (ie, user-level viable) then we