Thanks for getting back Chris - I've been using PCs and the web pretty much since the old BBS days, when PGP was the tool of mafia/pedos and spies, but I guess it's much more widely used now. Personally, these days my email/IM traffic consists of youtube and facebook posts, but I'll look into the various PGP flavours you mentioned should I be sending anything i'd prefer to remain private.<br>
<br>With regard to your compression question, flac compression is the only lossless codec I'm aware of, though adjustments to the ogg vorbis or mp3 settings can produce files which lack any obvious siblants or artifacts.<br>
<br>On 2 April 2010 13:23, chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris-h@diskant.net">chris-h@diskant.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
Hash: SHA1<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">Ian Bitmap wrote:<br>
> Hey Chris,<br>
> If you don't mind me asking, my you using PGP to encrypt emails? Aren't<br>
> you risking prosecution?<br>
<br>
</div>Not so far as I know. While there are too many stinky laws around<br>
encryption, they don't effect me.<br>
<br>
Nobody official has ever asked me to decrypt a message, so that's the<br>
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) out.<br>
<br>
The encryption itself, AFAIK hasn't been considered as a non-exportable<br>
military secret by the USA since the late 90s. And I believe that the Free<br>
software implementation GnuPG was developed in Germany to get around that<br>
in the 1st place.<br>
<br>
Basically, what Marion said. Everyone should use it, if only for the<br>
childish nerdy thrill of watching incomprehensible gibberish turn into a<br>
message only you can read.<br>
<br>
What with the UK government's "Mastering the Internet" plans (hubristic<br>
though they may be), now's the time to get in on the fun.<br>
<br>
Thunderbird email client: <a href="http://getthunderbird.com" target="_blank">getthunderbird.com</a><br>
with the "Enigmail" add-in<br>
and appropriate GnuPG version from <a href="http://gnupg.org" target="_blank">gnupg.org</a><br>
....makes it remarkably easy to set up.<br>
<br>
The social part of key generation / checking is a wee bit more complicated,<br>
but I'm happy to chat to anyone about it.<br>
<br>
There's also FireGPG addin for Firefox if you use webmail, and OTR<br>
(OffTheRecord) plugins for Instant Messaging clients lke Pidgin - some of<br>
those are very easy to use.<br>
<br>
(Was going to run a workshop on this in fact, before I left Glasgow. If<br>
there's interest enough, I could come through to do so)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
- --<br>
chris h<br>
<br>
The strange characters below this message are a digital signature.<br>
<a href="http://www.gnupg.org" target="_blank">http://www.gnupg.org</a> to encrypt / verify your emails.<br>
<br>
<br>
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Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a><br>
<br>
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