[ELECTRON] Idle speculation about music and compression files

[chris]

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Ian Bitmap wrote:
> Hey Chris,
> If you don't mind me asking, my you using PGP to encrypt emails? Aren't
> you risking prosecution?

Not so far as I know. While there are too many stinky laws around
encryption, they don't effect me.

Nobody official has ever asked me to decrypt a message, so that's the
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) out.

The encryption itself, AFAIK hasn't been considered as a non-exportable
military secret by the USA since the late 90s. And I believe that the Free
software implementation GnuPG was developed in Germany to get around that
in the 1st place.

Basically, what Marion said. Everyone should use it, if only for the
childish nerdy thrill of watching incomprehensible gibberish turn into a
message only you can read.

What with the UK government's "Mastering the Internet" plans (hubristic
though they may be), now's the time to get in on the fun.

Thunderbird email client: getthunderbird.com
with the "Enigmail" add-in
and appropriate GnuPG version from gnupg.org
....makes it remarkably easy to set up.

The social part of key generation / checking is a wee bit more complicated,
but I'm happy to chat to anyone about it.

There's also FireGPG addin for Firefox if you use webmail, and OTR
(OffTheRecord) plugins for Instant Messaging clients lke Pidgin - some of
those are very easy to use.

(Was going to run a workshop on this in fact, before I left Glasgow. If
there's interest enough, I could come through to do so)

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chris h

The strange characters below this message are a digital signature.
http://www.gnupg.org to encrypt / verify your emails.


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