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Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Feb 26 10:22:40 2006
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:06:46 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@jabber.org>
Cc: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Ian G wrote:
>
>> To get people to do something they will say "no"
>> to, we have to give them a freebie, and tie it
>> to the unpleasantry. E.g., in SSH, we get a better
>> telnet, and there is only the encrypted version.
>
> We could just as well say that "encryption of remote server sessions is
> rare in everyday use". It's just that only geeks even do remote server
> sessions, so they use SSH instead of telnet.
>
> The thing is that email is in wide use (unlike remote server sessions).
> Personally I doubt that anything other than a small percentage of email
> will ever be signed, let alone encrypted (heck, most people on this list
> don't even sign their mail).
I don't sign mail not because I can't be bothered, but because it is my
policy to not sign mail.
If I signed it, it would be substantially harder to deny I wrote it.
Cheers,
Ben.
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