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Re: Warning about Pegasus Mail and PGP (fwd)
Okay, here's how I understand things with PGP and Pegasus. You have two
options with Pegasus depending on the set-up options you choose. You can
either send upon completion of your out-going email, or you can have your mail
queued until you press the send out-going mail button. The actual PGP process
does not occur until you actually send the mail. So the answer would be:
don't queue your mail.
On 9 Dec 95 at 16:24, Jon Lasser wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 1995 [email protected] wrote:
>
> > I just installed the "Open Encryptor" PGP interface for Pegasus Mail.
> > I found that when you sign a message and queue it, it stores your password
> > in the clear on the hard drive. Apparently
> > it doesn't sign or encrypt the message until just before
> > transmitting it. So it stores your PGP private key password
> > with the message until it sends it.
>
> Can anyone verify this?
>
> Kinda brings new meaning to the term "Open Encryptor," huh?
>
> Jon
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> Jon Lasser <[email protected]> (410)494-3072
> Visit my home page at http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/
> You have a friend at the NSA: Big Brother is watching. Finger for PGP key.
>
>
>
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Kimberly Long
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