<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Robert Reese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@sixit.com">ale@sixit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Jim,<br>
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 10:41:25 AM, you wrote:<br>
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> I for one would like to know exactly what this activity is good for. I<br>
> understand that one of the uses of these keys is to be sure an email is<br>
> from who you think it is. Exactly what activities are you guys involved<br>
> in that require that level of security? Obviously you are doing<br>
> something other than sending responses to the various questions/issue on<br>
> this list.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><br>At my current job, we use GPG to create password keystores so that only people who are authorized to work on a set of machines can ever get that password, plus, with the password histories also encrypted that way, no one gets access to the old passwords either (ie: I start on this date, and any passwords generated/changed since then I can see, otherwise I'm SOL).<br>
<br>We don't currently use it for emails, though, that would be trivial at this point.<br><br>I'm also looking to use it as part of a dead man's switch system I am creating for myself to alert those around me who are reliant on me if I suddenly disappear, as well as those special few people who might need to have access to my accounts should unfortunate things happen to me.<br>
<br>Paranoia is a beach. Like Normandy in 1944.<br><br><br>Brian<br><br>