Re: GNU 2.0 and Windows

--- In PGP-Basics@yahoogroups.com, David Wade Hagar
<dwh16...> wrote:
>
> Darryl L. Rowe wrote:
> > Though...practically speaking...I've had no real
use for email
> > encryption and only used PGP Disks and will be
investigating use 
of PGP
> > Whole Disk Encryption...none of which GPG does
IIRC. Having said 
that,
> > I'll probably now find a use for email
encryption..... <g>
> 
> I think that is asking a little much of your average
computer user
> concerned about security.  Learning an OS to run inside
a VM for 
only
> one program.
>
  Here's my case for email encryption......

 I consider myself to be an average computer user; maybe
even a bit 
below average. Anyway,I might be one of the few in this
group that 
has use for _only_ email encryption. Here's why....for a
number of 
years I have been involved in a local political
"situation". It is my 
opinion that the opposition has direct access to the local
telephone 
company (monolopy). The real possibility exists that they
are able to 
read all of our sensitive communications. I tried PGP
(thanks to Mike 
Daigle for all his help)but found that the builtin security

(encryption/decryption and signing abilities) and *really*
simple use 
of OLE seemed to work just fine for me. Now that I know how
to use 
OLE security, I intend to instruct the others in our local
group to 
get a certificate and use OLE too.

Am I as secure as I think I am? Is this good enough for my
purposes?

 Tom Warren 

   



  



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> Am I as secure as I think I am? Is this good enough for
my purposes?

Probably not, and probably not.  I've been bouncing around
the crypto  
world for over a decade and I've never even heard of
"OLE Security"  
except in the context of security holes in Microsoft
products.   
(Microsoft uses a technology called Object Linking and
Embedding to  
let you embed an Excel spreadsheet in a Word document, and
other such  
things.)

Googling for "OLE Security email" doesn't return
anything helpful.   
Citeseer is also turning up a blank.

I have serious doubts that you're actually using what you
think  
you're using.


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