[6935] in Kerberos
Re: done any survey on who uses pub key cryptography?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Galster)
Sun Mar 24 11:34:34 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:50:51 GMT
From: Mattg@world.std.com (Matt Galster)
tjsatter@prairienet.org (Thomas J. Satterfield) wrote:
>sophisticated cryptography. Crypto, PGP, etc is so far beyond the comprehension
>of the "average" real-life computer user that until it is built into
>software as seamlessly as the Netscape secure-site protocols I do not think
>it will ever be used as extensively as we would like to see.
>That's just the way it is. People who can read and comprehend this message
>are for the most part a very tiny minority of computer users (IMHO)
>Tom Satterfield
>tjsatter@prairienet.org
Netscape's mail window in 2.0 has a PGP encrypt button, as well as
send via anon-remailer button. Have yet to try the PGP button but the
anon-remail part works pretty well.
MEG
