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Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email?
An anonymous reader writes "Many years ago when I first heard of PGP, I found an add-on that made it fairly simple to use PGP to encrypt my email. Despite the fact that these days most people know that email is a highly insecure means of communication, very few people that I know ever use any form of email encryption despite the fact that it is pretty easy to use. This isn't quite what I would have expected when I first set it up. So, my question to fellow Slashdotters is 'Do you encrypt your email? If not, 'Why not?' and 'Why has email encryption using PGP or something similar not become more commonplace?' The use of cryptography used to be a hot topic once upon a time."
I don't. I use GMail. I might as well use "1234" as a password.
If I encrypted it the government would start reading it.
F-Costs a lot and To: dont know how to read.
U-Got no time to mess with that which no one
C-will read anyway. I.e., don't waste my
K-time, dude.
I think you're
Doing it wrong.
It's really quite easy to
Organise the words so that
The initial letters match.
Part of the problem is that no one knows how to use PHP
While that's true, I don't see how it relates to email encryption
Monstar L
"cryptogeek fantasy realm" indeed. Reminds me of this comic that tells it like it is.
http://xkcd.com/538/
Are you kidding? I don't even talk to my wife without a Feistel cipher. My daughter's first words were via a one-time pad.
We're careful in my house.
Did I ever tell my story (this part is true) about the Bletchley Park alum that my wife worked with when she first got a tenure track position? I don't want to use his name because he passed not too long ago, but when he had office hours for his students, he'd show up in pajama bottoms with burnholes from the pipe he always kept stoked in his mouth. He was a sweet old dude, but you'd wonder how he made it out of the house every morning. In his final few years he was convinced that someone was out to get him and eventually it turned into unnamed Jews who were planning his demise. He was a British subject and there were stories of the stuff he did a Bletchley during the war when he was like 17 or 18 so what do I know? Maybe the Jews were out to get him.
Anyway, naw, I don't encrypt anything. I have a hard enough time communicating in open text. All of my passwords are my dog's name. I just say the opposite of everything I mean to throw off the New World Order. So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Anyway, naw, I don't encrypt anything. I have a hard enough time communicating in open text. All of my passwords are my dog's name. I just say the opposite of everything I mean to throw off the New World Order. So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
Same here. The only problem is that our dog does not come when I call. It seems that dogs have a problem recognizing names that are 41 random characters...
So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
You're probably one of the very few dudes that has a wife that listens..
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So when I email my wife, I'll write, "Don't meet me at the 5:10pm train and don't pick up my shirts at the laundry." Neat, huh?
You're probably one of the very few dudes that has a wife that listens..
It's not a wife. It's an encrypted husband.
"If a boss demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty." (John Boyd, 1927-1997)