NODE 632380c6Re: Physical security lapses will getcha every time.
markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)Fri, 27 Aug 93 21:43:30 PDT
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> Fact Two: That's why you won't see messages from me either (a.)
> signed with PGP, or (b.) encrypted with PGP from any of my other
> e-mail accounts. All are UNIX (open) environments and I don't like
> the implications of the possibilities of my secret key being exposed,
> even if I do trust the folks I work with. Call me a schizoid.
Of course, this doesn't make the UNIX versions of PGP useless. There
is absolutely no reason why you can't run your own personal Unix
box. Really all you need is a 386 machine with Linux or 386BSD.
The nice thing about the UNIX/Linux setup, is that you can still use
all the UNIX tools to send/receive encrypted mail (your favourite
mail user agent+pgp/ripem+UUCP+sendmail/smail) in a convenient way
without messing with MSDOS.
Mark
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Mark Henderson markh@wimsey.bc.ca (personal account)
RIPEM key available by key server/finger/E-mail
MD5OfPublicKey: F1F5F0C3984CBEAF3889ADAFA2437433
NODE 31addad3Re: Physical security lapses will getcha every time.
Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>Sat, 28 Aug 93 03:43:03 PDT
> Of course, this doesn't make the UNIX versions of PGP useless. There
> is absolutely no reason why you can't run your own personal Unix
> box. Really all you need is a 386 machine with Linux or 386BSD.
Yeah. Or even run BSDI on your 386SX notebook. That's what I'm doing.
I don't want to use DOS, with all it's cruft. Much prefer a system I have full
source code to...
> The nice thing about the UNIX/Linux setup, is that you can still use
> all the UNIX tools to send/receive encrypted mail (your favourite
> mail user agent+pgp/ripem+UUCP+sendmail/smail) in a convenient way
> without messing with MSDOS.
Yeah. And... Well... I don't want to get into any religious battles, but I
still prefer BSDI (the support is great and the networking code is much more
stable) over Linux - and yes, I do know Linux was develped out here in
Finland...
Julf