PGP Universal - Usable Email Security?

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 15, 2003 @06:59AM from the pretty-good-transparency? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, noted cypherpunks such as Brad Templeton, Ian Goldberg (PDF link), Bram Cohen, and Len Sassaman (PDF link) have been calling for easy to use email encryption solutions which involve little crypto comprehension on the part of the user. Now, it seems like someone has listened: PGP Corporation has announced its PGP Universal, which says it 'shifts the burden of securing email messages and attachments from the desktop to the network in a way that is automatic and entirely transparent to users'." The Register has more information on these newly announced proxy servers.

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Re:Thing is... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 07:20 · Score: 5, Informative

There is a Client Key Mode that doesn't store the Private key on the PGP server. In this mode the admin can't view your key. Read through all the FAQ's.
GNU Anubis by miah · 2003-09-15 07:24 · Score: 5, Informative

Doesn't Anubis do this already? Why would anybody implement something like this, when a free alternative exists.

http://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/

Not to mention it has many more features than this, and no NSA Backdoors =)

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-miah