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Re: Crypto and UI issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Mercer)
Fri Dec 16 10:41:09 2005
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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:41:21 -0700
From: David Mercer <radix42@gmail.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On 12/15/05, Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> wrote:
> David Mercer wrote:
> Thanks for the apology, but ... ssh is not my fault.
Sorry, crosswired openssl and openssh in my brain!
> I will agree that something better than just showing you the key would
> be cool. Like maybe it could be signed by something so you can verify it
> that way. Oh, wait. That's PKI, and we all know PKI is broken.
Yeah, 'broken' is about the strongest language we'd want to use on a
public list, huh?
> > Horrible, horrible UI, and I'm not sure what's worse, that or trying
> > to USE pgp (gpg, whatever) from a command line, or getting it
> > integrated into a gui mail client.
>
> Two words: Thunderbird, enigmail.
Sorry, I've become totally addicted to gmail and just can't imagine
being tied down to a single desktop machine. Not that gmail is the
end all be all of webmail or anything, and I'm not completely sure how
far I trust them, but they are top dog right now for email in my book.
-David Mercer
Tucson, AZ
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