[4456] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: PGP 6.5/PGPnet Announcement!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Tue Apr 6 17:25:16 1999
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:04:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <370A6B2B.EE2EF1D3@acm.org>
> > There's bomb-proof security, and there's "security" that itself is a time
> > bomb. I fear that self-extracting decryptors are much closer to
> > the latter than to the former -- very much closer.
At this stage, it's hard to see much justification for self-extracting crypto
any more. There are widely available MTAs including Microsoft's Outlook
Express that do a decent job with S/MIME. Outlook Express lets you store
correspondents' public keys in your address book, so it's literally one click
to encrypt messages in a reasonably secure fashion.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
