Re: Safe e-mail?
From: Newbie (nevazeca-invalid_at_address-a.com)
Date: 10/22/03
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:37:08 +0200
Nedavno Jean-David Beyer piše:
| > I asked if i can use GnuPG for encryption, and got a confirming
| > e-mail. Now I am wondering how do I knew that person I an
| > communicating with is not someone that intercepted my first e-mail.
| > I read some how-to's, and manuals, and it seems to me that maybe it
| > has something to do with a"web of trust". How does that work in
| > reality? How do I knew that someone on the other part of the world,
| > that I am communicating for a first time is the person he claims to
| > be? In my case he does have email address kjgrohmann at
| > scw-media.de, and their web site is www.scw-webshop24.de, so it
| > looks OK...
|
| I wish you had not set the type face so small: I can hardly read this.
I do not understand how I did this. I Googled for "type face", but since
English is not my native language, I did not understand what exactly did
I set to be small. As I understand it you are referring to font size. I
did not set anything like that.
| I find the Web Of Trust does not work at all for me, because no one I
| know is interested in e-mail security at all. I did verify someone's
| signature for him, and he for me, but we have no one in common, so the
| only person I can be sure is signing e-mail and is who was on his
| passport, is someone with whom I have nothing in common, and never
| see.
| So the whole thing is useless because of the apathy of various
| paranoid people I run into who bemoan the lack of privacy, but refuse
| to use GPG, VeriSign, or anything else.
|
| Sigh!
So what you are saying is that there is no way I can be sure that person
replying to my e-mails is who he claims to be? Anyone else with
suggestion?
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