Secure Email...

Can there be such a thing for 'normal' users??

I've been on the internet for +10 years now and I figure that nothing is secure on the internet... if someone whats so see it, access it, read it whatever, they will be able to. I know about encryption key length, physical security... but I just don't think any of it works against a determined individual. Keys can't be broken (well, at least not in our lifetime or with quantum computers), but they can be lost and then where does that leave you?

What brought this up was that I was checking out Ciphire Mail. Looks very cool. The more I look at it, the more that I like it. What would be really cool is that if they could merge this functionality with ... for example Mozilla Thunderbird. By integrating it within the open source email client Thunderbird, this might prevent the pass-phrase dialog box from appearing at boot up.

The only weak point I see in the Ciphire solution is that what happens to users if the certificate directory disappears (as this has never happened in the dot-com aftermath!!). I'm sure that the corporate solution will have business-managed certificate directories.

I will definitely have to give this product a good testing. Now that PGP is no longer free and open, I've been looking for a replacement.

F1fan

Thought I was a Techie...

I am writing this blog from my new OS... Fedora Core 3.

It all started of by having moderate success using RedHat 7.2/7.3/8.0 on some older laptops I tried to install RH 8.0 on my relatively new computer with an integrated Intel Graphics card. No joy!! That damn thing would not show more then 640X480 on the screen. So, after trying several different things (like trying to configure driver manually which only ended with me having to rebuild the OS) I got myself a copy of the newest Fedora release.

Fedora installed like a dream with no problems, except I was surprised to find that the boot floppy was no longer an option... the Colonel (just kidding) Kernel is too large to fit. Even windows still has the ability to boot from a floppy!!

Lets see how long I can stay open-source?? So far so good. I have been able to do anything I can do with my Windows box, albeit with a little more difficulty.

F1Fan...

PS> LONG LIVE FIREFOX!!

Let's try this blogging thing again...

Sometimes it is just too hard to stay motivated and continue blogging. I have deleted (as much as you can delete on the internet) all of my previous comments...

I hope that this time goes better.