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On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:36:28PM +0100, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Robinson wrote: > > what is GPG PGP stuff all about? > > It is about encryption. Of, among other things, email. > > Encryption is good, and important. So is locking your door. If the > number of people that need to be able to open that door is rather big > (because, for instance, it's the door to a shop), you'll end up > hanging the key to the door next to it, to keep it usable. So you may > as well not have put the lock there in the first place. > > Same with encryption really. If the whole list is able to read the > email, then it's so widely spread, there's no point in encryption. > I still like the concept of digital signatures -- Henry Communication not signed with an original manual signature or an appropriately verified digital signature is not binding. Sun Apr 28 06:44:57 BST 2013
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