Re: ISPs offering ssl-encrypted e-mail?

[Antti Tolamo <antti@tola.org>]

At 20:03 2.2.2001, A. L. Meyers wrote:
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> Dear fellow Debianites,
>
> People talk a lot about security on the net but my efforts to find an ISP
> offering e. g. ssl-encrpypted e-mail services have been met by dismal
> responses to date, even in the country with the thickest computer population
> (ratio computers / humans) in the world: Switzerland.
>
> Even with "big, professional" ISPs, it was rare among "technical" staff to
> find someone who even understood the question. One comment was: "Even if
> it's encrpyted to here, how should we do the rest of the route?"
>
> Since more than 95 % of the users I know do not use pgp or gpg, will e-mail
> privacy on the web remain wishful thinking?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lucien

No. Even PGP is bit dubious. I tried to use i with my Windows 2000,
but the one persons GnuPG public keys  I'd might have actually
needed didn't import to my Freeware PGP at all. With other GnuPG keys I 
also had
problems, with errors reported when importing them.

I tested also with Windows 98, and same there. Non GnuPG keys
seem to import without a fuss.


Antti