Subj : Re: Anyone using PGP/GPG in here?
To : pixelheresy
From : Vk3jed
Date : Tue Nov 06 2018 06:41 am
-=> On 11-05-18 07:19, pixelheresy wrote to Vk3jed <=-
pi> @TZ: 412c
pi> Now a days (beyond what may be available in Mystic... I admittedly
pi> never made the jump to actually running a board), PGP/GPG encryption in
pi> readily available in most computing if you look.
Well, in places, but it's around. But that's beyond the scope of this
discussion (GPG on BBSs).
pi> PGP or GPG tools are available on the OS level for everything and
pi> frankly the standard GPG for Mac/Linux on the command-line is quite
pi> easy to use once you get the hang of it. As such, any arbitrary text,
That's not an option. I have a low tolerance to fiddly operations, even if
they are easy. Any solution must be fairly well streamlined. On Thunderbird,
Enigmail works well, and fits into the workflow nicely.
pi> Beyond that, there are plenty of online mail services that have
pi> free-to-cheap mail services with PGP/GPG enabled. I am in the process
If you're talking about webmail, forget it. Another non starter for me. Poor
performance and navigation plagues a lot of web based services, and as mail is
a fairly high volume one for me, that's a big issue.
pi> of migrating to Protonmail and had no problem setting up better keys in
pi> it than "factory default" (4k hashes rather than 2k hashes). This comes
pi> with the security of having two-factor for webmail and a secure mobile
pi> client (also, being able to send expiring elliptical cypher messages to
pi> any email, even if you don't have or *they* don't have a public key is
pi> kind of fun). Also on iOS I recently got PGP Encrypt, which is a
pi> keyboard extension, key manager, and arbitrary encryption tool (text
<--> GPG). Haven't played with it much, but could be a nice way to do
omething
pi> quick and dirty in cases where you want to "on-off"
pi> a sensitive text message or encrypt the content on a web form...
Some interesting stuff there, though sgsin, how useful is it in a BBS context?
pi> I remember back in the day, I used to see a lot of people putting keys
pi> or links to them in sigs, etc. but now it seems like either email is
pi> seen irreverent or people seem secure with Google handling
pi> everything... No idea.
