PGP Is 10 Years Old

mod you later writes: "Wired is reporting that PGP is ten years old - and is giving a summary of the growth and political issues that PGP has gone through." Congratulations to Phil Zimmerman for the courage to release it despite opposition from various Official People, too. Has PGP changed your life?

Comments

I can't resist

[macdaddy]

I just can't resist reminding people that Phil Zimmermann, the author of PGP is a Macintosh user and wrote PGP using a Mac. I just can't resist it. :-) Now I wish there was a very simple, very concise "Idiots" guide to using PGP with an email client. That would make things so much more simple. It is really hard to explain to a newbie how PGP works. Hell I don't even understand it sometimes. If someone knows of a good resource, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks

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Re:I can't resist

[MikeBabcock]

I maintained one ... years ago. It started when I used PGP in my pre-PPP days of having shell accounts with Elm and Pine.

I had assumed that good E-mail clients supporting PGP natively would emerge. Pronto Secure fit that bill but there was some big anti-Pronto thing in alt.security.pgp so they cancelled the project. Its unfortunate since I loved their IMAP support too.

Re:It's a shame . . .

[B. Samedi]

You could argue apathy but I think it's more ignorance of the application then anything. I haven't met very many people who have even heard of it.

Re:It's a shame . . .

[MikeBabcock]

Microsoft went S/MIME, remember?

I know...

[milgram]

I still can't get the info from the password I forgot in 93'

It's a shame . . .

[Pituritus Ani]

. . . that after 10 years, PGP's use hasn't become commonplace. Even sadder is that it's not because of M$, the gubmint, or lack of a standard so much as the apathy of our own people.