On 31/07/12 19:25, Robert J. Hansen - r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote:
Set up a trusted introducer/certificate authority and presto, bang,
you're off to the races. When Alice comes on board at the company, the
local authority generates a certificate for her, sets up her
Thunderbird+Enigmail installa
On 8/1/2012 5:37 AM, peter.segm...@wronghead.com wrote:
> Alice doesn't understand what a certificate is and hasn't got the
> time necessary to do so.
Pardon me for being blunt: she's boned.
> The hypothetical benefit of secure communication with the "general
> public", i.e., non-members of the
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:04:57 -0400 peter.segm...@wronghead.com
wrote:
>On 31/07/12 19:25, Robert J. Hansen - r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote:
>Alice doesn't understand what a certificate is and hasn't got the
>time necessary to do so.
So,
she, and others like her, would be *more at risk* for compro
On 8/1/2012 6:13 PM, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote:
> These users are *trusting* you with their sensitive information,
> but are *blind* as to the problems that may occur.
>
> It is far, far worse to communicate using encryption, expecting
> that privacy will be maintained, when unknown to the user
gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org wrote on 08/02/2012 04:35:31 AM:
> - Message from peter.segm...@wronghead.com on Wed, 01 Aug 2012
> 09:37:35 + -
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> trampCrypt family of CLI programs
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> On
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
. . .
Feynman warned against this thinking in science. He called it
"cargo-cult science," after the South Pacific islanders who built
. . .
Really excellent. Thanks for taking the time to contribute
so much detail elucidating the metaphor so well
