BBC 'vague' reporting again!

[Dave Howe]

Roland Perry wrote:
> The vast majority of my email traffic is with people in the "outside
> word" who have probably never heard of PGP, don't have the skills to use
> it, and would regard it as ludicrous for me to suggest it.

Yeah. I get *lots* of queries along the lines of "I want to send secure
email! I have installed that pgp thing but it won't let me send secure
email to all my friends!! Its broken, how do I fix it? !!!"

When I point out (gently but repeatedly) that step 1 is to get everyone
you talk to, and want secure comms with, to install whatever software is
required and obtain/create a key, the light eventually comes on and the
software usually gathers dust from then on.

I have only three correspondents that I have an established and current
pgp key for, and a handful I have *expired* thawte or self-signed s/mime
keys for. And my circle of friends has some pretty paranoid people in it :)