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

[RossARR]

Ryan Barrett wrote:

> 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


Thank You for the URL's, I also located several that look promising,
need more time to diagnose.

IBE by email address?  Sounds interesting. If I send an email, the
receiver uses their email address to unencrypt, by typing it in?
Anybody that intercepts the message could then type in the email address 
& breach security. Maybe I am asleep here. I will followup on that, 
interesting in concept, but think something is missing.


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