Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-10 Thread chombee
Hi, I'm wondering about the privacy implications of using mutt. Say I'm using it on my laptop (or any untrusted host, maybe a computer owned and administrated by someone else) and if my laptop gets stolen I don't want my email to be compromised in any way. I don't want a copy of my email to be sto

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-10 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, May 10 at 04:06 PM, quoth chombee: > I'm wondering about the privacy implications of using mutt. Say I'm > using it on my laptop (or any untrusted host, maybe a computer owned > and administrated by someone else) and if my laptop gets st

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Gray
On May 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: I used to do that, until I discovered the power of gpg to decode things on the fly. Now I have an encrypted mutt config file that is sourced by the main mutt config file, like this: source "gpg -d .muttrc.secure.gpg|" Do what?!? Tha

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-10 Thread Gary
chombee writes: > I'm wondering about the privacy implications of using mutt. As usual, if "they" have physical access then all bets are off. Having said that, at least physical access to a computer you own is pretty much under your control. Data on some remote server? Not so much, no.

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-10 Thread Morris, Patrick
chombee wrote: Hi, I'm wondering about the privacy implications of using mutt. Say I'm using it on my laptop (or any untrusted host, maybe a computer owned and administrated by someone else) and if my laptop gets stolen I don't want my email to be compromised in any way. I don't want a copy of m

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-10 Thread rogerx
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:08:52PM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: >On May 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: >>I used to do that, until I discovered the power of gpg to decode >>things on the fly. Now I have an encrypted mutt config file that is >>sourced by the main mutt config file, like thi

Re: Privacy considerations when using mutt

2010-05-10 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, May 10 at 01:06 PM, quoth rog...@sdf.org: >>>source "gpg -d .muttrc.secure.gpg|" >> >> Do what?!? That's awesome. Thanks for the tip. Not sure if I'll >> use it, but it's a great thing to keep in the bag of tricks. > > wow, a bash