NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

Paul Hoffman paul.hoffman at vpnc.org
Thu Feb 23 18:41:18 EST 2006


At 1:56 PM -0800 2/23/06, Ed Gerck wrote:
>This story (in addition to the daily headlines) seems to make the case that
>the available techniques for secure email (hushmail, outlook/pki and pgp) do
>NOT actually work.

That's an incorrect assessment of the short piece. The story says 
that it does actually work but no one uses it. They briefly say why: 
key management. Not being easy enough to use is quite different than 
"NOT actually working".

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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