At 08:45 AM 9/4/00 +0200, Jaap-Henk Hoepman wrote:
>What's wrong with the PGP wrappers for Outlook or Eudora? They looked quite
>usable and user friendly to me - as far as any secure email product could
ever
>be completely be user friendly... The user has to do more stuff than
usual, and
>has to have some understanding of what is going on in order to judge whether
>his/her security requirements have been met.
There are some things they're good at; others that they're not.
If you've already got somebody's public keys in your keyring,
the Eudora versions work fine. If not, then you need to fetch and
verify the key somehow - they're not so good at that.
Older versions of the Eudora implementation are good at processing keys
included in messages into your keyring,
but are useless at verifying signatures on signed messages
when the only copy of the key you have is in the message itself.
I've recently installed 6.5.8 (still Eudora 3.x), and it's
improved a bit, but I haven't tested it extensively.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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