Re: getross - email privacy /security of system
Ryan Barrett <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, RossARR wrote: > But I prefer Pine, a PGP-PC-Pine would be nice. Maybe a bug into > somebodies ear could eventually create a PGP version, or is there a > version or plug-in now? yup, there are a few. a google search for "pine pgp" finds them: http://www.google.com/search?q=pine+pgp personally, i'm fond of systems that use "identity-based encryption." in a nutshell, this sidesteps the PKI problem - ie, how can you safely get your friend's public PGP key so that you can send them encrypted email - by using their *email address* as their public key. this means you can even send encrypted email to people who haven't yet generated a keypair (!). here's a best-of-breed IBE implementation, along with a linux download that includes a pine plugin: http://crypto.stanford.edu/ibe/ http://www.voltage.com/ibe_dev/download/downloads.htm -Ryan -- http://snarfed.org/ _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info