1994-02-12 - Re: Strategies for getting encryption in widespread use QUICKLY

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From: Peter shipley <shipley@merde.dis.org>
To: pfarrell@netcom.com
Message Hash: 668aabbb07b3c3c3fc33a50eb496de3f7421be532530c6ec33ff7052ef2313d7
Message ID: <9402122100.AA24152@merde.dis.org>
Reply To: <51623.pfarrell@netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-02-12 21:15:57 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 13:15:57 PST

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From: Peter shipley <shipley@merde.dis.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 13:15:57 PST
To: pfarrell@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Strategies for getting encryption in widespread use QUICKLY
In-Reply-To: <51623.pfarrell@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9402122100.AA24152@merde.dis.org>
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>In message Sat, 12 Feb 94 11:11:09 MST,
>  Bryan Ford <baford@schirf.cs.utah.edu>  writes:
>
>> This is another good application, but I think it suffers from the same
>> problem as encrypted E-mail messages: as long as it's even a little
>> less convenient than no encryption, most people just won't care enough
>> to use it.
>
>I agree completely with this. we have to move encryption onto the desktop
>PCs and Macs, and make it transparent to the naive users. Eudora and NUpop
>are a good start, but aren't transparent when you use PGP or ViaPGP.
>

This is why I email this list to encourage the use of MIME email headers
with a MIME mailer (elm, pine, mh, Zmail etc..) when a person
receives email, the mailer agent will invoke pgp automaticly
thus reading encrypted email is a user transparent process.


		-Pete


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