Re: getross - email privacy /security of system
"RossARR" <[email protected]>
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Ryan Barrett wrote: > 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 Thank You for the URL's, I also located several that look promising, need more time to diagnose. IBE by email address? Sounds interesting. If I send an email, the receiver uses their email address to unencrypt, by typing it in? Anybody that intercepts the message could then type in the email address & breach security. Maybe I am asleep here. I will followup on that, interesting in concept, but think something is missing. -- RossARR [email protected] mrossarr.imapmail.org ---end-of-message--- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info