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Re: Warning about Pegasus Mail and PGP (fwd)
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On 9 Dec 95 at 18:29, Siberia wrote:
: 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.
That's not really a solution in the Windows environment, if you have a
swap file, you never know what gets written out to it. The solution is
run w/o a swap file or run an encrypted file system. I run an
encrypted file system.
Pegasus will indeed save your key with your message in the outgoing
queue. This is a problem with the design of pegasus, not with the
design of the add on encryptor.
:
: 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
: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: > 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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