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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:20:51PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> > I used pgp at my past job, and still do, to communicate with co-workers
> > stuff I didn't want management to see.  
> 
> Practical question: How easy is it to keep track who is gnupg/pgp
> capable and their public key/sig details?

In my experience, the best ways to manage that are:

 - visit a keyserver (like pgp.mit.edu) and see if the person you're
   interested in communicating with has posted a PGP/GPG key.
 - Advertise yourself as a PGP user by signing your e-mail.

People who use PGP are likely to notice if you sign your mail, and if
they're interested in communicating with you using encryption, they
may well simply ask you for your details.

Unfortunately, too few mailers have PGP support built in, and also too
few people use PGP.  It would be nice if mailers had some sort of
feature which indicated the user's ability to use PGP, and their
preferences for sending and receiving encrypted mail.

You can jury-rig this somewhat by adding custom headers to your
messages, but not all mailers can do this (especially Windows ones)
and many mailers won't display those headers by default.

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Derek Martin          |   Unix/Linux geek
ddm@pizzashack.org    |   GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu

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