RE: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-02-27 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
It saddens me, but I have to agree. Raising interest around PGP encryption is easy, but when it comes to actually using it, that's when people seem to back off quickly. I'm not a developer, so have no idea what would be required, but it seems to me that more focus is needed on making the experien

RE: Teaching GnuPG to noobs

2015-06-17 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
In addition to explaining concepts, the biggest issue for me is simply the steps one has to go through to get it working, steps that don't always result in success. This seems especially problematic for Outlook users, I have yet to find a free solution for Outlook that works reliably. And I do tr

Question about GpgOL

2015-07-06 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
Hi, I’m trying to use the GpgOL plugin and am running into a hopefully solvable issue. Essentially, I want to be able to send and sign Email, but when I do this, the signature is always opaque. While I think I understand the reason for using opaque, this essentially results in the message being

Can I convert a V3 key and is it even worth doing?

2014-11-28 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
Hello everyone, I have a rather strange problem on which I could use some advice. I am starting to use GnuPG again after a number of years and to that end, have resurrected my original key generated with PGP back in 1998. For the most part this key works well although since it's an older V3 key, c

GPG and Outlook

2014-12-04 Thread Steven M. Sawczyn
I'm having trouble finding a really suitable way to get GPG and Outlook 2013 working together and would really appreciate some help. I know of two solutions and will outline the troubles I'm having with each below. GpgOl plugin (included with gpg4win) * Does not stay activated, I