West Lothian and email

[David Hansen]

On 14 Jan 2009 at 9:54, Roland Perry wrote:

> The problem always has been: whose format of encrypted email (not much 
> interoperability, afaik), and is there any format that doesn't require 
> at least "A level" computer science qualifications to operate?

I'm not convinced that any of them which are punted to the public do 
need any skill to operate. Insert memory stick, type in passphrase is 
not a problem to anyone who can operate a computer.

They can be made more complicated by those who wish them to be. 
Preventing auto-mounting of volumes for example, but knowing how to use 
the command line interface of PGP is not something "run of the mill" 
users need to know.






-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
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