| Mike Leone on Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:02:04 -0500 |
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Jeff Abrahamson (jeff@purple.com) had this to say on 12/18/02 at 23:47: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:30:03PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: > > It would be helpful if people could let me know exactly what they want > > to hear about GnuPG... I can always give the "Public key crypto and > > you" talk, but I suspect you folks are more advanced than that. > > Hi, David. > > I presume most of us will know at least the basics of what PK > encryption is and at least how to use it with mutt or to > encrypt/decrypt individual files. > > What would interest me most would be anecdotes about life with > encryption. You probably hear more of these than the average joe. I > don't mean stories of Chinese dissidents, but surely there's > interesting anecdote on how people use encryption and how things > change as they do. Most people I know do not knowingly use > encryption. This list is the one place where I see encryption used for > signing and, sometimes, for privacy (in individual correspondence). Or maybe some of the more ... advanced, or less-well known parts. Or how they are applied. Encrypted filesystems, maybe? Are there such things as GPG certificates? Interoperability issues between platforms? Etc. -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 Attachment:
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