Re: Why don�¼t gnu.org and RMS sign mail? (was: Testing new mail server)

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>  > Somebody can make your settings such that you do not need to enter
>  > passphrase, it would be kept in the file or provided as a string on
>  > command line.
>
>  > --passphrase-file file
>
> Thanks, but I really do not want to have my passphrase stored in a file
> on my computer.
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman

Yes.  Two weeks ago I discovered that, as installed on my Debian
up to date Debian systems, gpg does not actually encrypt a file.
Not without disabling the absurd behavior of keeping the password
around, and using it without asking me when I go to view the file.

Richard and list folk!  Please forgive me, but I will not be able
to take much part, if any, in further conversation about this
until some day likely a month from now.

oo--JS.


> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)