Encryption Saves the Day

[Sensei]

With recent news regarding lawsuits over emails, companies firing employees over using email services for their own use, mistrust, insecurities, etc., I often wonder why more people haven't gotten hip to using encryption, or at least PGP signing email. An SSL certificate, PGP, something, anything to provide a definitive method of protection for themselves.

How important is one's life to them? When people are ordering merchandise over the net, are they that naive to think that the world is a safe place? Aside from that, my biggest gripe is still focused on why many haven't yet shifted to at least PGP signing an email as a standard de facto action.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/articles/e_savesday.html

[Strike]

I've wanted to do this for a while, but if no one has the tools to decrypt it, what's the point? I don't want to have to remember who I can send encrypted mail to and who I can't, and I don't see any easy utilities that will do that sort of thing for me. It's not that I don't have the tools to encrypt/decrypt, because those are fine.

[flynnwallace]

I send emails but truely dont have a need to encrypt them. The only time I have used any type of encryption is when I use ssh. If I worked on sensitive data maybe I would use encryption.

Flynn

[Molecule Man]

Main reason not to bother?

My friends don't have it. Nothing important gets sent out by email. So what if you find out when I am meeting a friend for lunch, or even personal information like my phone number. Like if you know my full name you couldn't find it in the phone book. A search in any search engine will turn up my old web page.

I am far more concerned with making sure my web browser supports ssl so I can purchase online than protecting my lowsy email.

[Sensei]

test reply. dont respond to me.

[Strike]

Originally posted by Sensei:
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(the above was encrypted with the "type every letter one key to the right" algorithm)