Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 381
I think Cameron's idea is rubbish and unworkable. Doesn't mean that I'm not going to criticise reasons that I consider poorly thought out.
But young kids nowadays have Unicode smiley's to work with.
Not on Slashdot they don't! ðY
For it to work in a corporate environment, it must be mandated by the company so that everyone does it, everyone must have a client that supports it, keys must exist and be distributed, and only then can everyone rely on an unsigned message being invalid. If your boss forgets to sign a message telling you to do something and you ignore it, you better have a company policy backing you up.
I don't see this as a big problem. Most people will use whatever's installed on their machines, because setting up a new client is too much hassle. And surely even Outlook has PGP add-ons.
To deal with the other issue, we do need extra utility - clients that will automatically sign, and automatically reject and return unsigned emails from addresses with known keys.
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