Re: [MLUG] @home went dark.

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well by that argument you could say that sending unencrpyted messages to
dopes who can't comprehend how to use encryption is a fault in encryption
programs. They put a pretty interface on the encryption so that the
average person can use it. At least that is an effort. :)

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the
opening of new frontiers."
                                       -- Arthur Koestler

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Igor Izyumin Jr. wrote:

> 
> > Igor,
> >
> > You should have looked up on hushmail and not immediately tried to prove
> > someone else to be incorrect. Hushmail uses OpenPGP as well as a managed
> > PKI, and digital signing. So basically it in and of itself is better.
> I did look up hushmail.  The thing is, it uses OpenPGP only internally: you 
> can't look at the messages stored in the system, but once it goes out of the 
> system, it's cleartext.  Using straight PGP is cheaper and more secure, since 
> even after it gets transmitted over to some other system it is secure.  
> Hushmail is secure only when you send stuff to a recipient on the same 
> system.
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