Re: options files

2013-02-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/21/2013 07:50 AM, John A. Wallace wrote: > Can I get a link discussing one or more of a typical situations when options > files are used? Thanks Some of us are collecting "best practice" suggestions over here: https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices#update-your-gpg-defa

Re: Question about the following....

2013-02-24 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013, Mark Campo wrote: Assume I had the GnuPG/PGP software.yet tell me how you would use GnuPG/PGP to encrypt the file and what instructions or methods you would need me to use to get the encrypted file and decrypt it on the recipients machine WITHOUT the recipient having Gnu

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 02/24/2013 03:27 PM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: > Ship a device. Meaning what, exactly? At first blush you seem to be trading one problem for another: people don't know how to use GnuPG, so ship a device and now they don't know how to use the device. > Your argument seems to show that, in order to

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-24 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 02/24/2013 08:21 AM, Anonymous wrote: You seem to imply that Americans are less capable or less interested in PGP-protected mail. Oh, please. This is pure projection. The German bank "1822 Direkt" sends PGP encrypted bank statements to th

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 02/24/2013 08:21 AM, Anonymous wrote: > You seem to imply that Americans are less capable or less interested > in PGP-protected mail. Oh, please. This is pure projection. > The German bank "1822 Direkt" sends PGP encrypted bank statements to > their customers. Someone mentioned another Germa

Question about the following....

2013-02-24 Thread Mark Campo
Assume I had the GnuPG/PGP software.yet tell me how you would use GnuPG/PGP to encrypt the file and what instructions or methods you would need me to use to get the encrypted file and decrypt it on the recipients machine WITHOUT the recipient having GnuPG/PGP software loaded to the recipient system

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-24 Thread Anonymous
>OpenPGP, no, because there's no business case for them to do so. >OpenPGP users represent a phenomenally small fraction of their userbase >(probably <1%) and would account for a large fraction of their tech >support questions. You seem to imply that Americans are less capable or less interested i