[SLUG] GPG key signing party

[Matthew Toseland]

On Thursday 13 March 2008 09:59, David Knight wrote:
> Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> > Just a bit more prodding to try to get people to try out this GPG 
> > stuff and come to the meeting.
> >
> > I get the feeling that most of the Scarborough and Ryedale people 
> > actively enjoy using the command line for doing stuff.
> >
> > I am comfortable using the command line, but I am able to make more 
> > efficient use of GUIs...
> >
> > Anyway, I wanted to give a thumbs-up to Enigmail 
> > (http://enigmail.mozdev.org/). It's an extension for Thunderbird (and 
> > other Moz mail clients) which automates all the command line GPG stuff 
> > in Ryedale's tutorial (http://www.ryedale.lug.org.uk/howto.html) - if 
> > you don't have time to mess around on the command line you may find it 
> > useful.
> >
> Having just setup 20+ (Windows) computers with Thunderbird and another 
> 10+ to go in the next few days for my employer should I be worrying 
> about the lack of encryption in emails staff are sending to each other?

Depends on who you're worried about reading them. If they're internal that'd 
be other employees or sysadmins? I'm not sure what the legal situation is 
with reading your employees' emails... isn't it covered by RIPA?
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