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Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed

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On 25/09/2018 16.35, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 09/25/2018 09:35 AM, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>> My attorney sends e-mail in clear text, so it does not matter if I
>> have PGP or not. And she is in a small firm: one attorney, one
>> paralegal, one secretary. No IT people at all.
> 
> So, your attorney is a good example of the "typical end user".
> 
>> For her to use PGP, she would have to hire a consultant to  install
>> PGP and enigmail and Thunderbird, and have to learn it. And now she
>> uses a web browser on Windows for e-mail purposes.
> 
> Thankfully, S/MIME is not quite that bad.  At least most relatively
> modern email clients support it.  (Outlook has had support for 15+ years.)
> 
>> Furthermore, she would need to get all her clients to do the  same.
>> Out of the  question.
> 
> She would need to get the clients that want to use it to do so.  She
> doesn't (and can't realistically) force clients to use something they
> want to not use.
> 
>> And that ignores distributing her public key safely to her clients,
>> and perhaps getting their public keys back to her safely as well.
> 
> IMHO the issue of distributing the (a) public key is relatively easy to
> do.  Send a signed message.  That is enough to provide the public key
> and allow recipients to reply with encrypted messages.

Not with PGP... a man in the middle could send a faked key.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E.R.

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Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201809.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2018-09-23 19:45 +0000
  Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-23 22:03 -0400
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-24 10:27 +0000
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-24 07:48 -0500
      Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-24 13:18 -0400
        Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-25 08:16 -0500
          Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-25 10:26 -0400
            Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-25 17:17 +0200
              Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:16 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:24 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:47 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:56 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 22:20 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 00:43 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:21 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:52 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 12:10 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 12:15 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 14:31 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-09-27 20:07 +0000
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 16:39 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 09:45 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 09:52 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 14:22 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 14:26 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-28 15:43 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 15:54 -0400
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-27 06:52 +0100
                Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:22 -0400
  Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2018-09-25 11:35 -0400
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2018-09-25 14:35 -0600
      Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:50 -0400
    Re: Good example why business emails should be PGP'ed "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-09-26 14:25 -0400

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