Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-24 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Saturday 23 January 2010, Chris De Young wrote: Sven Radde wrote: Hi! Mark H. Wood schrieb: I too would like to find some way to get the word out about what it is and why my correspondent might find it desirable. What about inline signatures when emailing people that do not yet

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-24 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:34:06 -0300 Faramir Faramir faramir...@gmail.com articulated: Sven Radde escribió: Hi! Mark H. Wood schrieb: I too would like to find some way to get the word out about what it is and why my correspondent might find it desirable. What about inline

Re: Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-23 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Mark H. Wood schrieb: I too would like to find some way to get the word out about what it is and why my correspondent might find it desirable. What about inline signatures when emailing people that do not yet use OpenPGP? Enigmail, for example, has per-recipient rules that are supposed to

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-23 Thread Chris De Young
Sven Radde wrote: Hi! Mark H. Wood schrieb: I too would like to find some way to get the word out about what it is and why my correspondent might find it desirable. What about inline signatures when emailing people that do not yet use OpenPGP? Personally, and this is just my opinion, I

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sven Radde escribió: Hi! Mark H. Wood schrieb: I too would like to find some way to get the word out about what it is and why my correspondent might find it desirable. What about inline signatures when emailing people that do not yet use

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-23 Thread makrober
Chris De Young wrote: Personally, and this is just my opinion, I don't care for this approach (I have considered it) for a couple of reasons. One, it may encourage use of inline signatures in general... Unsolicited attachments are considered inappropriate by many. MacRober

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/21/10 05:48, MFPA wrote: These seem to be fairly rare these days though - or maybe I just don't know many people who use clients like this. Outlook Express has that limitation (unless it was fixed in a late version). I just did a quick test using Thunderbird 3, enigmail 1, and

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-22 Thread Matthew Krotzer
* Chris De Young c...@chud.net [100120 15:47]: Matthew Krotzer wrote: What is the best way to let people know you use gpg in an email signature? I usually just sign my messages and figure that's sufficient advertising. I'm sure that only a very small minority of my recipients bothers to

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04:26AM -0500, Matthew Krotzer wrote: I've recieved enough replies of can't open the attachment you sent that made me stop signing all my emails. I'm looking for best policy to say hey, see this gpg stuff? You should look into it so we assure some degree of privacy

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-22 Thread Chris De Young
Mark H. Wood wrote: Oh, yes. My tongue is nearly bitten through from suppressing the urge to respond, what did you think an 'application/pgp-signature' attachment is? I too would like to find some way to get the word out about what it is and why my correspondent might find it desirable. I

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-21 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Chris On Wednesday 20 January 2010 at 8:43:20 PM, you wrote: Matthew Krotzer wrote: What is the best way to let people know you use gpg in an email signature? I usually just sign my messages and figure that's sufficient advertising. I'm

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-20 Thread Chris De Young
Matthew Krotzer wrote: What is the best way to let people know you use gpg in an email signature? I usually just sign my messages and figure that's sufficient advertising. I'm sure that only a very small minority of my recipients bothers to validate the disgnature, so advertising is actually

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 1/19/10 11:46 PM, Matthew Krotzer wrote: What is the best way to let people know you use gpg in an email signature? Some email clients (Thunderbird+Enigmail, for instance) let you put a kind of note to other users hidden in the email headers. These things, called kludges, are one of the

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-19 Thread John Clizbe
Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 1/19/10 11:46 PM, Matthew Krotzer wrote: What is the best way to let people know you use gpg in an email signature? Some email clients (Thunderbird+Enigmail, for instance) let you put a kind of note to other users hidden in the email headers. These things,