Re: [PLUG] news

[Steve Litt via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:55:51 -0400
Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:


> It makes zero sense to send stuff unencrypted.  Even if you don't
> trust every certificate out there, you're more secure using encryption
> with an untrusted certificate, than you are not using encryption.

I wouldn't say zero sense, and here's why...

Encryption takes a lot of work. You need to ride herd over all your
keys and all your certificates. I've heard there's one zero-cost
certificate vendor whose certificates last only 3 months, so unless
you're extremely good at doing the right things at the right times,
your website's going to go down or your email's going to screw up.

Nobody I know has ever published a very simple "here's how you keep
everything encrypted all the time" document for the person starting
from zero (like me). The docs out there all assume I know terminology I
don't, entity relationships I don't, and simple commands that for me
aren't so simple.

Also, I'm not so sure how my email client (claws-mail) would handle
encryption and certs.

If  you know of good, simple documentation about how to do this stuff
simply, please let me know.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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