Sunday, November 13, 2005


A Meme That Isn’t A Waste of Your Time


Sven-S. Porst challenged me to talk about email encryption (PGP/ S/MIME, or something), and to suggest to 5 others that they do the same… I realize that you aren’t all Mac folk, but it’s reasonably straightforward in Thunderbird, Outlook, Evolution, and several other mailers, so hopefully you’ll give it a whirl.

First, if you’re using Apple Mail, there’s a really friendly guide to getting it set up. Otherwise, the Wikipedia entries for S/MIME and PGP might be worth checking.


:: Dave Walker 21:19 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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d.w. wrote:

Title:

Date: 11/19/2005 07:42:38

Response:
http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/secure_email_meme.php
d.w. wrote:

Title:

Date: 12/3/2005 16:43:34

Response:
http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20051203125320
Jorgen Marsh wrote:

Title: Encryption: give me ease of use over 100% assurity any day

Date: 3/20/2006 15:23:29

Response:
I agree that good email encryption options are sparce for Outlook users. Man, GPG and PGP are just beyond me, too difficult to setup and manage and share. I'll share my story. I just a need a "Good enough" solution: I'm not a terrorist or a spy. As a small businessman, I just wanted a cheap, quick and easy solution. I had tried a bunch, but I just bought the new MessageLock application. It's a symetric key product, no "special reader" is required by the receiver. I just type in a password and go. Authentication isn't that important to me, but then again, for my use if an email comes in encrypted, thats good enough for me. The url for a MessageLock trial is www.encryptomatic.com. I think messagelock.com also works. Keep it up,



Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words. The plot was the same one that all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up the world, but James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to several attractive women. There, that's it: 24 words. But the guy who wrote the book took *thousands* of words to say it. Or consider "The Brothers Karamazov", by the famous Russian alcoholic Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's about these two brothers who kill their father. Or maybe only one of them kills the father. It's impossible to tell because what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages.If all Russians talk as much as the Karamazovs did, I don't see how they found time to become a major world power. I'm told that Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" to raise the question of whether there is a God. So why didn't he just come right out and say: "Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me." Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words: * "Moby Dick" -- Don't mess around with large whales because they symbolize nature and will kill you. * "A Tale of Two Cities" -- French people are crazy. -- Dave Barry

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