[48070] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP in Eudora and other mail programs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Thu Jan 25 20:24:48 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 17:09:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v02120d06ad2da5af828f@[192.0.2.1]>
On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Lucky Green wrote:
> At 11:54 1/25/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>
> >(I understand from this list that Eudora for Windows is now doing this much
> >more automatically, that someone has a PGP-in-Eudora package. I don't think
> >it was from Qualcomm, but I could be wrong. As a Macintosh version user,
> >I'm hoping this comes to the Mac version as well.)
>
> There exist two Eudora/PGP packets. The MacPGP Kit and MacPGP Control. I'd
> use MacPGP Control. Just do a search for it.
I tried 'em both and found them dog slow and unreliable, like most other
things based on AppleEvents. True command-line piping and DDE work in
UNIX/DOS/Windows, but there's none of that on the Mac. What I've done is
ResEdit key combinations into my software to do wordwrap, then I cut text,
switch to the PGP window, sign or encrypt the clipboard, switch back to
the mail/news window, and paste. MacPGP's "dialog shortcuts" make this
mostly painless. We don't need no steenking automation.
Of course this doesn't work for attaching files, but I do that
sufficiently rarely that the minor pain of handling that case manually is
outweighed by the interest of minimizing the gunk in RAM and on the menu
bar.
-rich
