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Re: OpenPGP Sub Keys (Was: key flag for authentication)



Ian Brown <I.Brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > You clearly don't archive your encrypted email...
> 
> Indeed -- I decrypt messages before saving them (and use separate
> storage encryption to protect the mail store.) Nor do I save every
> message sent and received (which I know some people do).

I've still got messages encrypted with PGP 2.0 sitting in my
mail storage.  The pgp encryption is better than any disk
encryption I could get -- especially considering that I dont
maintain my disk storage or backups myself. ;)

The wonders of "distributed computing"...

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@xxxxxxx                        PGP key available