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Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Thu Feb 23 18:59:56 2006
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:41:18 -0800
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From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
At 1:56 PM -0800 2/23/06, Ed Gerck wrote:
>This story (in addition to the daily headlines) seems to make the case that
>the available techniques for secure email (hushmail, outlook/pki and pgp) do
>NOT actually work.
That's an incorrect assessment of the short piece. The story says
that it does actually work but no one uses it. They briefly say why:
key management. Not being easy enough to use is quite different than
"NOT actually working".
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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