On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:52 -0700, Josh Coates wrote: > speaking as someone who thinks personal encryption is kind of silly: > > "don't forget to bring your tinfoil hats to the meeting." > > :-p > > [alright, i'm being a bit of a troll here, but hey, it's my honest > opinion...]
I'll bite. PGP signing is not about encryption. It's about ensuring the authenticity of an e-mail. Utah has already passed laws allowing a digital signature to have the same legal status as a pen and paper signature. In the business world, this is *very* important and critical. I believe it's also critical to sign anything that you publish on the internet where guarrantying authenticity is critical. Source code, binaries, etc. Another issue is that anyone can forge any e-mail address. Viruses regularly do this. If you make it a habit to always sign your e-mails than it is trivial to filter out viruses and spammers that use your e-mail address to spread their bad things. Michael > > Josh Coates > http://www.jcoates.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Thornock > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:31 AM > To: stuporglue; BYU Unix Users Group > Subject: RE: [uug] PGP and Thursday Meeting > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: stuporglue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> I consider this a problem with webmail, not GPG. I would never > >> trust my secret key to anyone else, no matter how free their > >> service. If I'm not the only admin on the box, I neither install > >> my GPG private key nore my SSH private key. > > > > > > So I take it it's possible to move my GPG to whichever computers I > > want, Right? (Sometimes I have crashes, or delete OSX, and there'd > > be no point to having a key, if when I switched to annother > > computer/OS, I had to switch keys). > > > > Michael > > Sure, it's easy to copy your key to whatever computer you want. > Some people keep their keys on those little USB thumb drives so they > always have them handy. I make sure mine are on a backup CD (locked > away in a safe place, of course) so I have them available in case I > have to replace a hard drive or something. The thing you *don't* do > is put your private key where someone else can get it. > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
