From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 16:42:43 PDT
To: holland@cs.colostate.edu (douglas craig holland)
Subject: Re: PGP automation
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According to douglas craig holland:
> 
> Right now, it is a complete pain in the ass for me to encrypt or sign
> messages using PGP.  The reason is because I have my email account on
> one of CSU's unix machines, so I have to do my posting there, while
> my PGP stuff lives on my PC in my apartment.  Usually, I check my mail
> and read news by calling CSUNet over my modem, but if I want to encrypt,
> decrypt, sign or check the signature of a message, I have to zmodem the
> message to my machine, log off, decrypt or check the message while
> offline (or at least shelled into DOS), type up a reply, manually encrypt
> it and finally get back into my term program and zmodem the reply back
> up to CSUNet and mail it.  I don't really want to run PGP on CSUNet, since
> I don't trust their machines like I trust mine, but I am thinking about
> doing that and generating a key which I would be wiling to use for less
> secure stuff.  Anyone here have any other suggestions on making encryption
> less of a pain?

If you happen to use 4dos and telix on your pc at home, I have some (imho) nice
tools which make it easy to encrypt...  For a taste of what I mean, try my 
menu.btm menu program for pgp under 4dos.  If you like it, you can look at my
(as yet unreleased) mail program.  Lagers.


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