Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>
>
> On 5/6/07, *Alan Dayley* <alandd@consultpros.com
> <mailto:alandd@consultpros.com>> wrote:
>
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> 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
>
>
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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?
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