From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 11:04:08 PST
To: raph@netcom.com (Raph Levien)
Subject: Re: Premail and transparent email
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Raph Levien writes
> My intent is to get large numbers of people to use PGP to encrypt all
> of their email, including casual stuff. This won't happen until
> encryption and decryption are _totally_ transparent.


This is the way to get people to use crypto.

It would also be useful to patch majordomo to check signature
consistency -- to check that a message signed by X is signed
with the same public key as previous messages by X (a non
trivial problem because of the key distribution issue).

In the absence of such tools, nagging people to use crypto
is unlikely to do much to further the cause.


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