Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > > On 5/6/07, *Alan Dayley* > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ray Cantwell wrote: > > > >> I am not responding to your original request for help. Sorry. I > >> do note, however, that you have signed your email. As you can > see, > >> I sign most of my emails too. > > > >> I was not able to download your public key from the usual key > >> servers and confirm your signature. Do you have your public key > >> posted somewhere? > > > >> Alan > > > > I am still learning to us PGP, just uploaded the key, hopefully it > > should work now. > > Got it. Good work. > > Signing is good for the email world. Thanks for taking it up. > > Alan > > > > Signing is definately good for the email world. However, the > majority of email clients are not configured to accept it. This > creates an effect that if a 'non-technical' person sees the PGP tags, > they are likely to ignore the message ( scary PGP tags! :) ). For > instance in Gmail I see your PGP keys, and there is no good way to > make them invisible. I can certainly create a technical workaround, > but %98 of people on the interweb can't even come close to figuring > out how to do that. I am the defacto 'PGP configgerer' amongst the > people I work with, and I can tell you it's no easy job (I recommend > TBird+Enigmail). PGP is not likely to be supported widely as > encrypted email via PGP is the bane of marketing departments > worldwide. Google responded with quiet aversion when people first > started using PGP on Gmail. > > -jmz > > > > > -- > .0000. communication. > .0001. development. > .0010. strategy. > .0100. appeal. > > JOSHUA M. ZEIDNER > IT Consultant > > ( 602 ) 490 8006 > jjzeidner@gmail.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss I think Google doesn't like people encrypting their e-mail on GMail because that whole business model relies on them being able to give you advertising off of keywords in your e-mail. Obviously if it's encrypted they can't do that and you're breaking their business model. Is encryption banned in their Terms of Service for GMail? I signed up for an account there a long time ago but never really used it as I run my own e-mail server. I sign all of my e-mails as well and my non-technical friends and family never have any problems with it. They probably just mostly ignore the extra attachment. That's probably the difference: My method of signing produces an attachment instead of it being in-line. That might be a little less "scary" for the non GPG-aware. Does this group ever do any key signing parties? -- Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ) Homepage: http://the-hansons-az.net Weblog: http://the-hansons-az.net/wordpress Jabber IM: jon@the-hansons-az.net