> 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.
99% of the people don't care about good passwords, but we still force them to pick good ones. 99% of the people don't care about secure http, but amazon.com still won't let them send their credit card information without it. > 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). No, that's my whole point -- here's all the technical sophistication you need in order to use S/MIME with the default installation of Outlook (or, once they get the bugs worked out, Mozilla): - If there is a blue ribbon icon, the message is genuine.* - If you want to encrypt a reply, click a checkbox. Nobody except the intended recipient will be able to read it.* - If you want to sign messages or receive encrypted ones, follow the simple instructions to get a digital certificate, and then click another checkbox. * Unless Microsoft or VeriSign screwed up, and if that happened, you would have heard about it on the news by now.
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