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On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:36:28PM +0100, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Robinson wrote:
> > what is GPG PGP stuff all about?
> 
> It is about encryption. Of, among other things, email.
> 
> Encryption is good, and important. So is locking your door. If the
> number of people that need to be able to open that door is rather big
> (because, for instance, it's the door to a shop), you'll end up
> hanging the key to the door next to it, to keep it usable. So you may
> as well not have put the lock there in the first place.
> 
> Same with encryption really. If the whole list is able to read the
> email, then it's so widely spread, there's no point in encryption.
> 
I still like the concept of digital signatures


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Henry
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