On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:38:04 +0100, Ian Grigg said:
Oh, indeed. BTW, do you have any statistics on that?
Sorry no. I have not seen that companies publically announce that
they now use encryption for their communication; probably because
everyone would expects that communication is held confidential.
a third is reputation. Both of these are relatively
well served by the OpenPGP's web of trust, but they
are being ignored. Meanwhile, a lot of companies
There are no widely used applications to support OpenPGP for that. I
know one TLS implementaion capable of using OpenPGP keys but the usual
web clients don't support it.
It would be easy to use this with ssh and I expect to see it in the
near future.
normally start with "why o why is there no button to
generate a self-signed x.509 key and start using it?"
Even worse: My jabber client complains about self-signed certificates
instead of displaying its fingerprint once for verification.
But, to underscore my earlier point, mail is not where
it's at. Traffic is moving to chat, and there is a
chance to re-engineer the comms architecture, as chat
Although I don't like chat things very much, you are probably right.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner