How about an open-source keyserver project. Make the code needed to take advantage of the keyserver available to everyone and hopefully we would have a bunch of encryption/keyserver-ready mail programs in no time. Keys should be associated primarly with email-addresses and everyone could register their own keys, with email confirmation to that specific email-address of course. This could really boost the use of encryption.
An update to `substitute your favourite mail reader here` which would add support for automating encryption process. What is needed is an extension to normal addressbooks to accomodate a public key for the individual in question and instead of just the normal send-command also a send encrypted-command.
An ideal model would be that when i have say pine and pgpg installed in my system, pine would automatically offer the option of encrypting the message(autodetect the presence of an encryption program). Signing the message with my own private key would of course also be automatic. When you receive an encrypted message, your mail reader would automatically attempt to decrypt it with your private key.
Of course there are some securite implications involved with automating the use of encryption keys but as long as your account/files aren't compromised these shouldn't really be a problem.
Maybe this is a limitation of cd's? I recall reading from somewhere that a CD can only have 99 tracks. If this device requires one song per track this 99(100) song limitation might well be true. Of course you can join mp3s together but searching becomes harder. This, of course, depends on the way mp3s are stored on cd's. Maybe it uses some kind of a file system to circumvent the 99 track limitation..
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How about an open-source keyserver project. Make the code needed to take advantage of the keyserver available to everyone and hopefully we would have a bunch of encryption/keyserver-ready mail programs in no time. Keys should be associated primarly with email-addresses and everyone could register their own keys, with email confirmation to that specific email-address of course. This could really boost the use of encryption.
An ideal model would be that when i have say pine and pgpg installed in my system, pine would automatically offer the option of encrypting the message(autodetect the presence of an encryption program). Signing the message with my own private key would of course also be automatic. When you receive an encrypted message, your mail reader would automatically attempt to decrypt it with your private key.
Of course there are some securite implications involved with automating the use of encryption keys but as long as your account/files aren't compromised these shouldn't really be a problem.
Maybe this is a limitation of cd's? I recall reading from somewhere that a CD can only have 99 tracks. If this device requires one song per track this 99(100) song limitation might well be true. Of course you can join mp3s together but searching becomes harder. This, of course, depends on the way mp3s are stored on cd's. Maybe it uses some kind of a file system to circumvent the 99 track limitation..