[Pine-info] getross - email privacy /security of system

[Ryan Barrett]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, RossARR wrote:


> But I prefer Pine, a PGP-PC-Pine would be nice. Maybe a bug into

> somebodies ear could eventually create a PGP version, or is there a

> version or plug-in now?


yup, there are a few. a google search for "pine pgp" finds them:

   http://www.google.com/search?q=pine+pgp

personally, i'm fond of systems that use "identity-based encryption." in a
nutshell, this sidesteps the PKI problem - ie, how can you safely get your
friend's public PGP key so that you can send them encrypted email - by using
their *email address* as their public key. this means you can even send
encrypted email to people who haven't yet generated a keypair (!).

here's a best-of-breed IBE implementation, along with a linux download that
includes a pine plugin:

   http://crypto.stanford.edu/ibe/
   http://www.voltage.com/ibe_dev/download/downloads.htm

-Ryan

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