pgp key moratorium

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
>  Furthermore, the email becomes needlessly
> cluttered with stuff that doesn't lend itself to speech output.  
> 

It is certainly possible that those who don't use gpg, may, as you
say, find that messages sent by those who do use gpg
are cluttered. However, what you describe as clutter proves very useful
and beneficial to at least myself, now that I started using gpg, to be
sure that a message sent from someone was actually sent by that
person. furthermore, the fact that most if not all of us who use gpg
have posted their public keys on key servers, makes sending an
encrypted private message to a particular person very convenient,
since we automatically have that person's public key on our key ring,
thus saving us from the trouble of having to find out what that
person's key id is so that we can get their key. Granted, I don't send
encrypted private messages to other listers on a regular basis, but it
is good to know that I have the ability to do so, should the need
arise. 

I'm sure there are more things which I forgot to mention, which prove
to be beneficial to those using gpg on public mailing lists. Also, the
top of the email messages only says the message is pgp signed, and
what you are most likely referring to as clutter (I.E. the poster's
signature) is at the bottom of the message, which shouldn't pose a
hindrance in comfortably reading a message.

Note: I am not attempting to flame or criticize anyone, I am only
stating my viewpoint regarding the benefits of using gpg on a public
mailing list such as this one.

Greg



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