[86659] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP Usability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Sep 16 02:48:33 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:02:03 -0700
To: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970915104030.00b06e90@dnai.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 10:40 AM 9/15/97 -0700, Lizard wrote:
>PGP/Eudora is a wonderful example of this. All that is needed to use it is
>one extra step (after install) -- typing your passphrase to sign a message
>before it is sent. Otherwise, it works the same as it always has. As a side
>effect, you can right-click to encrypt any file you can see in Explorer.
>Simple, quick, and usable even by the brain-dead, once you've convinced
>them TO use it. (And I forgot to bring my key file to work, so my Eudora
>here is useless for those purposes. Bother.)
So generate a work key at work, for encrypting/signing work stuff, and get
your home key off the keyservers for encrypting stuff for home use.
I'm also highly pleased to see Eudora and PGP together, since there's
a base of about 20 million Eudora users that PGP will pick up some of.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
