Re: email and crypto

2023-12-14 Thread Rick Troth
On 12/13/23 00:55, David L. Craig wrote: Also, everyone should be aware key service is effectively dead since it was discovered nothing prevents apparent public keys from being poisoned by a black hat. What I've seen w/r/t "poisoning" is flooding a given public key with countless bogus signatu

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-12 Thread David L. Craig
Also, everyone should be aware key service is effectively dead since it was discovered nothing prevents apparent public keys from being poisoned by a black hat. If you want one of my public keys, visit http://dlcusa.net (hosted on a Marist Z-box--thanks, Sir Santa). -- May the LORD God bless you

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-12 Thread David L. Craig
On 23Dec05:1319-0500, Rick Troth wrote: > So that's the question: are any of you using PGP via Thunderbird? (Or > using PGP at all?) I'd like to hear from you. Maybe converse with myself > and our unnamed colleague. Sorry, I glossed over this since I do not use Thunderbird. I've used GPG for well

Re: email and crypto(graphy)

2023-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/8/23 08:08, Rick Troth wrote: Grant's reply also got quarantined by Googoo. [sigh] Yes, sigh. I'd be curious to learn more about why it was quarantined. I have my suspicions but they hedge on conspiracy theory and I'll elide them for now. Nice detailed reply, Grant! Thank you. I co

Re: email and crypto(graphy)

2023-12-08 Thread Rick Troth
Grant's reply also got quarantined by Googoo. [sigh] Nice detailed reply, Grant! > I chose to use S/MIME in lieu of PGP / GPG because S/MIME support > has been in email clients going back to the late '90s.  As such I found > S/MIME to be FAR MORE TRANSPARENT than PGP / GPG ever was. I concede. A

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-07 Thread Paul Flint
Dear Truth, See ya at our next key signing party. Regards, Flint On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:20 PM Rick Troth wrote: > > That's cryptoGRAPHY, not to be konfoozed with cryptoCURRENCY. > > Any of you using Thunderbird? And if so, are you using the (now) > built-in PGP support? > > Last week I notic

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-07 Thread Rick Troth
Naturally, GMail decided to quarantine some replies, including this one. Tom said: > I would participate in a group (linux-390) level 'web of trust'. I have > attached my new PGP key as published to https://keys.openpgp.org Well then ... let's get that started! Since your attachment seems to h

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-06 Thread Mark Post
On 12/5/2023 1:19 PM, Rick Troth wrote: That's cryptoGRAPHY, not to be konfoozed with cryptoCURRENCY. Any of you using Thunderbird? And if so, are you using the (now) built-in PGP support? -snip- So that's the question: are any of you using PGP via Thunderbird? (Or using PGP at all?) I'd like to

Re: email and crypto(graphy)

2023-12-06 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/5/23 12:19, Rick Troth wrote: That's cryptoGRAPHY, not to be konfoozed with cryptoCURRENCY. Chuckle. Any of you using Thunderbird? Yes, for now. And if so, are you using the (now) built-in PGP support? I've poked it a few times, but I don't do much at all with PGP encrypted / sign

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-06 Thread Rick Troth
Thanks Berry -- I'll respond privately, but also, it sounds like at work you were using an enterprise solution with some lengthy "trust links" and possibly with multifactor. I would not want to have to use a smart card for this (in general) and something about slow startup just doesn't sound righ

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-05 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Rick, At work I have Outlook, at home I have Thunderbird (yes, Linux only, I use opensuse for a long time already). At work, I have used encrypted mail and some colleagues do as well, but I don't like it all that much. (Actually I was glad it was removed when I installed my new PC, I didn't b

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Kern
I tried PGP encrypted emails between me and my sons (linux/unix users) but they are both using Outlook now for corporate reasons. With the three of us, it was easy to get the 'web of trust'. For my last employment, the PKI model was chosen from the very beginning. I would participate in a group (

email and crypto

2023-12-05 Thread Rick Troth
That's cryptoGRAPHY, not to be konfoozed with cryptoCURRENCY. Any of you using Thunderbird? And if so, are you using the (now) built-in PGP support? Last week I noticed a LI post by someone from this circle. He had made a donation to Thunderbird (and we thank you!). So I asked this colleague pr