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[Ben Laurie]

Nicholas Bohm wrote:
> 
> 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.

PGP will also do an encrypted pseudo-disk, on some OSes at least.

Cheers,

Ben.

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