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Re: pgp signing in van

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 23:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: pgp signing in van
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> wrote:

> On Sep 6, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The issue is that smime email clients are more common so I would
> > rather teach the smime doggie pgp like tricks than vice versa
>
> The problem is getting your smime program to stop using CA keys and only
> use your local key as a CA key.   And someone would have to code up
> something to do all the certs.   It's not a bad idea in theory though, if
> it can be made to work
>

I am working towards doing both.

Point is that it would be very useful to be able to offer confidentiality
to a core of people in the developer community. There may not be a way to
make use of the data leaving Vancouver but there might be a way to use it
before London.





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