[Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

ianG iang at iang.org
Fri Sep 19 20:06:29 EDT 2014


On 19/09/2014 12:52 pm, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn at astro.indiana.edu> wrote:
>>> Which is why we have the Phonetic Alphabet.  Many's the time I've had to 
>>> say Hotel Oscar Romeo Sierra Foxtrot Alfa Lima Lima.  The odd part is, 
>>> they get it every time.
>>
>> Alas, my experience has not been so good:
>> * If I just say "Hotel Oscar Romeo Sierra Foxtrot ..." a significant
>>  fraction of listeners have no idea of what I'm talking about.
> A as in aisle, c as in ctenophore, d as in Djibouti, p as in pneumonia....

p as in phonetic ;-)

iang



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