[Enigmail] testing enigmail - signed message

[Lachezar Dobrev]

  1/2 OT:
  I am seeing a substantial fraction of 'newbie' users that persist on
sending encrypted mails to public lists.
  I tend to attribute that to misunderstanding of encryption and signing
technology, rather than misbehavior or intentional wrongdoing.

  Maybe it would pay-off to greet the members in this list with a custom
message pointing them to a relatively easy and unencumbered reading as to
how EXACTLY is encryption work and WHY it does not work with multiple
UNKNOWN recipients.

  For those who will counter me with the fact that one can encrypt content
to multiple recipients I want to stress-out that I am referring to a mailing
list which contains UNKNOWN recipients.

2008/1/30, John Clizbe <John at mozilla-enigmail.org>:
> Les wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
> <snip>
> > -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
>
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 251146A3, created 2008-01-14
>       "Les <more at uofmoney.com>"
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 88633D33, created 2008-01-29
>       "Jasper Ossentjuk (add 1) <jossentjuk at gxxxx.com>"
>
> Sending this directly to it's one recipient would be a whole lot
friendlier than
> sending an encrypted message that no one else can read to the entire list.
>
> Please don't send encrypted test messages to the list, ever; Signed are
OK.
>
> --
> John P. Clizbe                      Inet:   John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
> You can't spell fiasco without SCO. PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10/0x18BB373A
> "what's the key to success?"        / "two words: good decisions."
> "what's the key to good decisions?" / "one word: experience."
> "how do i get experience?"          / "two words: bad decisions."
>
> "Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
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