[24407] in Cypherpunks
Re: GUI: PGP vs novices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Grant Edwards)
Wed Dec 21 13:04:27 1994
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 12:46:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@src.umd.edu>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.941221154924.11859C-100000@eram.esi.com.au>
On Wed, 21 Dec 1994, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 1994, Dave Del Torto relayed to us:
> Egad. I suppose I shouldn't feel too annoyed that out of over fifty
> copies of PGP (from the 2.3A days) I've distributed (at my own expense)
> to radio amateurs in Australia (for authentication on packet radio),
> with two lectures and an article in a national magazine, and
> exhortations to call me about any problems, precisely two other people
> are using it (but are not signing their messages); and these were
> already crypto-aware to start with - sigh...
PGP has made me more crypto aware, but at this point neither I nor most of
the crypto aware people I personally know feel there is a need to either
encrypt or sign messages on a regular basis. While this doesn't do great
things for supporting crypto, it is simply reality. DigiCash is a
different situation of course - it is needed, and as soon as possible.
-Thomas
