On 06/06/2014 01:11 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > > > On June 6, 2014 1:58:47 AM CDT, Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> wrote: >> On 06/06/2014 12:32 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 05:32:38PM -0600, Mirimir wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2014 12:09 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:26:16AM -0400, Cpp wrote: >>>>>> Dear GnuPG users, >>>>>> >>>>>> As part of the ResetTheNet campaign I decided to start using email >>>>>> encryption. I am a relatively new user of gpg, who is looking >> forward >>>>>> to using it for secure communication. >>>>> >>>>> This is not a critism, but with who do you plan on communicating >>>>> using encryption? Absolutely no one I know uses it or is remotely >>>>> interested in it. I get the standard answer "I have nothing to >> hide". >>>> >>>> I've used GnuPG almost exclusively with people who know me only as >>>> mirimir, or as another of my online personas. For the most part, >> those >>>> are people that I know only as their online personas. I've also used >>>> GnuPG with a few consulting clients. >>>> >>>>> Mentioning their bank p/w does tend to pull them up short. I do >> enjoy >>>>> the look on their faces. >>>> >>>> I've never used GnuPG with a bank ;) >>> >>> I mentioned their bank p/w in reply to their mindless statement "I >> have >>> nothing to hide" to show them that yes lad, you do indeed have plenty >> to >>> hide. >> >> Indeed. And that reminds me of a similar issue. I don't recall any >> hosting provider that asked for my key for securely sending passwords, >> even IPMI passwords! And when asked, most have said that they weren't >> set up for that. > > Wait, why would you want that? That would mean they were storing > your password insecurely.
I'm not referring to web account passwords. I mean root login passwords for servers. Once I login, change the root password, set up SSH, etc it doesn't matter. But it bugs me. And passwords for IPMI interfaces are far worse, because customers can't change them. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
