Re: encryption options for public networks?

Tom Higgins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.seattle.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Rob Flickenger wrote:
> hence paranoid pasty teenage boys who throw key signing "parties".
> (I've been to these parties, and trust me, it ain't a party if there
> aren't any girls.  =)

You mean grandma is not gonna want to do the key signing mambo..even if
Lawrence Welk is doing the music? AS for the geekness of the signing
parties, oi vey yea, but it is a good chance to meet folks and the like.
We have been doing these down in ptpland for anyone who comes on to the
ops team. Without a personal verification of keys they simply do not get
the keys to the nodes, in a manner of speaking.

> As far as I can tell, there is no magic green lightbulb that will light
> up in your menu bar or system tray that tells you that the network is
> "secure" without some user intervention.

Which is why our end user focus is still mainly education , as a clothing
store says so well in its ads "an educated consumer is out best customer"

-tomhiggins

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