-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/2014 06:16 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On 16/03/2014 12:21, Jean-David Beyer wrote: >> On 03/15/2014 02:28 PM, Egbert van der Wal wrote: >>> I actually see encryption as less of an issue. When I send an >>> encrypted message to someone, I need to know for sure that the >>> recipient knows about PGP encryption and knows how to decode >>> it. If I send an encrypted message to someone who does not use >>> PGP, he/she cannot read it, no matter what. > >> How do you send an encrypted message to someone who does not use >> PGP? You need his public key to do that. > > I think that is the point that he was making - his reason for > thinking that encryption is a lesser issue. > > Anne
When his sentence starts out "If I send an encrypted message to someone who does not use PGP, ..." he is already lacking understanding since he CANNOT send an encrypted message to someone using enigmail if he does not have that someone's public key. And if that someone does not use enigmail (or something very much like it), he better not send that message at all (if it really needed to be encrypted). I never benefit from enigmail because I cannot get any of my correspondents to use it at all. In fact, many of them prefer Facebook or their cell phones to send me messages. And while I have SSL turned on with Facebook, I very much doubt that Facebook itself, on their servers, keeps my messages encrypted even though they seem to be during transmission. My impression is that with all the hand-wringing about the NSA and other agencies snooping on Internet communication, most people, or at least most of my friends, do not actually care about Internet privacy. Even with gnupg and enigmail, the headers are all exposed, but that is another story. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 07:00:01 up 4 days, 16:02, 2 users, load average: 4.20, 4.22, 4.46 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTJtePAAoJEBZthAoMYQyLCQ4H/33LaqWjahiEzPCTwBND11+m trwV+nuOIK8x/oSpIDzEJnHWm6AbIGsotju2bjRdnlkIKYdmBJLU4X79vUcNPzRR YE3wyUxSkwFHdPnIm0YXGpZbUe/lVT9B2yoqIQyS4vyCIQu3vu4e5XbJB7AOjiOf Ni1n3OWiEhLe0/PZHE7iakpfJPLzaA+jvrOOhcdtCUWEJoe5ioGCZ/fiifxlNktz 8U1xZZJhqztO7qsM+TkHVFosp7+wcEgQWE53tlA5o8gvM21VhTi5yZg7GRhOGFTd uzJvnELydTePRaht8LJdVJru+cSdIHALCFfYc4rqcLhHtRM4xkB6u/cRHv35QdY= =gHjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
