West Lothian and email
Roland Perry
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:12:13 +0000
In article <496DC2AC.15961.9962F7@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>> 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.
That's encrypting a memory stick, not (individual) emails.
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Roland Perry