From: "Pat Farrell" <pfarrell@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 12:51:24 PST
To: tcmay@netcom.com
Subject: RE: Laziness?
Message-ID: <57234.pfarrell@netcom.com>
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In message Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:38:55 -0800 (PST),
  tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)  writes:
> I connect to the Net from my home Mac IIci or PowerBook 170 over a
> 14.4 modem line to Netcom, an Internet service provider many of you
> are familiar with. Once on Netcome, I have access to a wide range of
> standard UNIX tools. However, I do NOT run PGP on these machines!
>
> Rather, I run MacPGP (or PGP on my DOS machines, in emergencies, or
> even "MailSafe" in rare circumstances) on my *home* machine, after first
> downloading the mail with "Eudora 2.0," a nice off-line mail reader.
> It still takes several steps, as most of you can imagine.

I use a similar system to Tim's, except that I use NUpop on a "PC" to
download 150+ messages a day from cypherpunks and a bunch of other lists.

We have to move the tools to the user's controlled, secure environment.
For some that may be Unix, but for close to 98% of the 'net community,
a controlled computer is a Mac or PC.  At GMU, a few supported grad students
have personal Suns or other workstations, maybe 50 students out of 22,000.
But nearly all of the students in the techy schools have at least a PC or
mac that is under their personal control. Multi-user Unix solutions
don't cut it.

More importantly, if all 700+ of us on this list used encrpytion for
_every message every day_ it would be only an insignificant portion of the
net volume. We have to get encryption out to the masses.

Pat

Pat Farrell      Grad Student                 pfarrell@gmu.edu
Department of Computer Science    George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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