[LINK] Email encryption use low

[Frank O'Connor]

At 12:03 AM +1100 13/3/01, Tony Barry wrote:
>At 11:15 AM +0000 12/3/01, Stephen Loosley quoted:
>
>>
>>".. Fewer than 10 million people use PGP, the most popular method 
>>for encrypting e-mail. That's out of a
>>worldwide Internet population approaching 400 million.
>
>
>But maybe lots of people, like me, can't think of anything much they 
>want to encrypt and don't know if their recipients are equipped to 
>read their encrypted mail. Besides that obscuration, allusion and 
>personal references can make a private message pretty opaque anyway.


Mmm ... but PGP is now so much more than just email encryption and 
authentication. It comes with a VPN client/server, and a number of 
file and disk encryption utilities, transparently installs plug-ins 
for all mailers as part of the install process, and in version 7 is 
as user friendly as all get up on both my Macs and the PC. Version 7 
appeared on www.pgpi.org about a month back. I recommend it to one 
and all.

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