On 5/6/07, Alan
Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>
wrote:
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Ray Cantwell wrote:
>
>> I am not responding to your original request for
help. Sorry. I
>> do note, however, that you have signed your email. As you can
see,
>> I sign most of my emails too.
>
>> I was not able to download your public key from the usual key
>> servers and confirm your signature. Do you have your public
key
>> posted somewhere?
>
>> Alan
>
> I am still learning to us PGP, just uploaded the key, hopefully it
> should work now.
Got it. Good work.
Signing is good for the email world. Thanks for taking it up.
Alan
Signing is definately good for the email world. However, the
majority of email clients are not configured to accept it. This
creates an effect that if a 'non-technical' person sees the PGP tags,
they are likely to ignore the message ( scary PGP tags! :) ). For
instance in Gmail I see your PGP keys, and there is no good way to make
them invisible. I can certainly create a technical workaround, but %98
of people on the interweb can't even come close to figuring out how to
do that. I am the defacto 'PGP configgerer' amongst the people I work
with, and I can tell you it's no easy job (I recommend
TBird+Enigmail). PGP is not likely to be supported widely as encrypted
email via PGP is the bane of marketing departments worldwide. Google
responded with quiet aversion when people first started using PGP on
Gmail.
-jmz