Subject: PGP - Integrated, Behind the scenes

From: [email-masked] (Lester Vecsey)
Date: 4 Aug 1995 17:45:11 GMT

Any hopes of including PGP support in PINE? mkpgp works ok, but it would 
be REALLY nice if PGP could be integrated in pine as well as MIME support 
is for attachments. i.e., every message you type in pine would be 
automatically signed by your secret key and messages sent to you would 
automatically be checked for validity, and decrypted on the fly without 
you even knowing it. Imagine all the new people that would be using pgp 
if it was as simple as that.

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From: [email-masked] (Robert A. Pickering Jr.)
Date: 11 Aug 1995 23:21:25 GMT

And imagine all the sleep I'd loose knowing that anyone with access to
my account (by cracking my password or with privledge) could send mail
authenticated as me, and decrypt all my mail sent to me (and probably
all the files I encrypted if it's integrated well).

No thanks.  I would support something that allowed me to specify if
I wanted it signed, then asked for my passphrase.  I would support 
something that verfied signatures on signed mail received by me and 
told me it was valid.

But, I don't want anything signing things automatically, or decrypting
automatically, that just causes it to loose it's significance.

Actually, a collegue of mine here wrote some shell scripts and a 
.forward filter that will perform all of this automatically, without
the use of mkpgp.

-Rob

Lester Vecsey ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Any hopes of including PGP support in PINE? mkpgp works ok, but it would 
: be REALLY nice if PGP could be integrated in pine as well as MIME support 
: is for attachments. i.e., every message you type in pine would be 
: automatically signed by your secret key and messages sent to you would 
: automatically be checked for validity, and decrypted on the fly without 
: you even knowing it. Imagine all the new people that would be using pgp 
: if it was as simple as that.

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