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[Nicholas Bohm]

At 09:44 AM 8/1/1999 +0100, Donald Ramsbottom wrote:
>SNIP
>>I am a practising lawyer, and have found PGP entirely satisfactory.
>>Key-generation may be slow for a large key, but you don't do that very
>>often.  Encrypting, decrypting, signing and verifying are more or less
>>instantaneous for files of any normal size (say up to 300 kb). 
>
>All my files (every letter and document is held on my system) when sending
>instructions to counsel or when detailing many other matters to the client,
>or the court, it is often necessary to send large volumes of data,
>especially when scanned documents are held as *.jpg files (for later
>archiving purposes). This means that it it is by no means unusual to have
>5-10MB worth of attachments, and their may well be 150+ individual
>documents, this complexity and the need for the other end to be able to
>decode means that simple "one touch" solutions are a boon as we all know
>time is money! Once assembled the actual nitty gritty is usually delegated
>to a member of my staff who may or may not be tech oriented.

As an experiment I just tried encrypting 40 files totalling 8 MB.  It took
two clicks and 20 seconds.  Decrypting took two clicks and about 10 seconds.

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm

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PGP RSA 1024 bit public key ID: 0x08340015.  Fingerprint:
9E 15 FB 2A 54 96 24 37  98 A2 E0 D1 34 13 48 07
PGP DSS/DH 1024/3072 public key ID: 0x899DD7FF.  Fingerprint:
5248 1320 B42E 84FC 1E8B  A9E6 0912 AE66 899D D7FF