[svlug] End-to-End Defacto

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:02:02 -0800
Scott DuBois <linux at roguehorse.com> wrote:

> Had this passed along through another news group and thought I would
> go ahead and share it here as well. It wasn't long ago that people
> used to hassle me about signing and encrypting "regular" emails as a
> matter of habit while also explaining to people they should really do
> the same. Maybe I'm not so crazy after all? 
> 
> https://threatpost.com/google-releases-end-to-end-chrome-extension-to-open-source/109935
> 

The most knowledgeable people I've known have *always* recommended
encrypting (I don't remember what they said about signing) every
message, because if you only encrypt the secret ones, you might as well
label it "Here's the one you should look at, NSA (or Russian Mafia or
whatever).

I encrypt none out of laziness, but then again, I almost never put
anything in an email I wouldn't delightedly share with the spooks and
the hoods.

SteveT

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