Encouraging email security.

[Jean-David Beyer]

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David Picon Alvarez wrote (in part):

 > With this, you further prove my point that the users' "by default"
 > threat model is the cause. Users don't care about privacy thus they
 > don't use crypto. That was my point in the first place. OTOH, S/MIME
 > crypto under OE doesn't seem very easy to set up to me, since you
 > have to get a certificate, but I wouldn't know since I use OpenPGP
 > anyway.
 >
Well, I have both the S/MIME (mine is from VeriSign) that I use with
Mozilla and GnuPG that I use with mutt. I used to use Enigmail with 
Mozilla 0.99, but it does not work with Mozilla 1.01 or whatever I have now.

Getting a certificate from VeriSign and installing it in Netscape or 
Mozilla is much easier than generating a private-public pair with GnuPG 
(the easy part) and getting into a web of trust (the hard part). Even 
installing GPG into mutt was tricky and required help from others on 
this mailing list to do it.

But for me, all this is useless, and I am very sad about it. Because of 
all the people I know, only one has the slightest interest in it, and 
she is willing to check a box somewhere once to get it, but nothing 
more. So if she could check a box in whatever msn.com uses for a mailer 
saying: use encryption, she would, but not otherwise.

I do not know how to get around this cultural gap. But until the 
majority start using encryption for everything, not just sensitive 
stuff, those of us who do will just attract the attention of the very 
busybodies whose attention we wish to avoid.

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