GPG testing...

[Mark Komarinski]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 04:17:49PM -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
> > and Outlook users will not be able 
> > to read the message at all.  
> 
> I use Outlook (the one with OfficeXP) and it came up fine, just had an
> attachment that some people might be scared of
 
Bah. ;)

> > My recommendation is to publish your key to 
> > 'keyserver.kjsl.com', which is currently the least broken keyserver.
> 
> Oh goodie, the "least broken" keyserver, that of course means that it
> still has issues and is probably broken in some way. This makes me want
> to use GPG or PGP every day and trust it :)
 
My public key is available from my web site as well, if only Outlook
would show all the headers (or does it now?).  Hence the reason why
I asked if I should publish it on the keyservers or leave it on
my web site.

> Seriously, how can you trust anything like this.. There's gotta be a
> better way. Most of the ways I've seen people use GPG/PGP is stupid
> anyway. Some people sign emails that they know 95% of the people that
> recive them will either not bother to confirm the GPG/PGP sig or don't
> know how.. Of they use it to encrypt files and put it on a disk only to
> put the pass phrase on the disk or email it to people over an unencryped
> channel (this happens to me all the time at work).

There seems to be a lot of confusion over how to properly sign a GPG/PGP
e-mail.  Too bad the MUAs (even the open source ones) can't get together
and standardize.  mutt will verify the signature, but only if I have
the key (which I guess I can get) and if it's signed in PGP/MIME format.
Those that don't use MIME just shows up to me as a regular e-mail and the
signature is not checked.  Knowing how touchy M*A people about their
products, this is probably intentional.

-Mark
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