[LINK] UN declares that the right to privacy,

[Kim Holburn]

When you can communicate via email to someone who is not technical then maybe but at the moment, gpg/pgp is not ready for non-tech use.  Even techs find it hard to use.


On 2013/Dec/18, at 10:27 PM, Karl Auer wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 21:35 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>> Indeed Jim, you and anyone can have state-of-the-art email privacy right 
>>> now, without doing anything radically difficult or special.
>> 
>> If you can find a secure email server.
> 
> Not necessary - just use PGP. Or a certificate from a CA you actually
> trust (hint: there are none worthy of your trust).
> 
> Yes, GPG/PGP is a (slight) pain to set up. Yes, you need to arrange a
> public key exchange before you can exchange secure emails. Yes, some
> email programs don't integrate it very well. But you CAN have a secure
> email exchange with someone if you want it, at the cost of a little
> setup work.
> 
> This does not protect the fact of an email exchange, the time of the
> exchange, the received list and so on, but it completely protects the
> content of the message. Not even the administrators of the servers your
> email passes through or is stored on can access the content.
> 
>> You still have to trust the server.
> 
> Not with GPG/PGP.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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