[Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?

Jerry Leichter leichter at lrw.com
Sat Dec 21 12:45:21 EST 2013


On Dec 12, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
[About problems getting signed/encrypted mail to work in Mail.app, concluding:]
> Summary:  On the surface, the Mac provides easy-to-use support.  But when you actually try to enable it, it fails in a way that is certainly beyond the ability of most users to fix - and even being quite knowledgable about this stuff, after 1/2 an hour or so of trying, I gave up.
Apparently, there's one step you have to take that's mentioned nowhere in the documentation:  After you put your new key in the keychain, you have to restart Mail.app.  I normally let it run indefinitely, and didn't even consider this possibility.  Then yesterday I restarted it for some reason I no longer remember.  Suddenly, the option to send signed or encrypted mail ... just appeared!
                                                        -- Jerry



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