re: #40 WindUpBird

Can’t you encrypt emails in raw text? nothing needs to support anything, it’s just raw text that looks like alphabet soup without the key.

Also, anyone you’d be sending Important Shit to should have the damn key. I can count a zillion different ways to get ahold of good friends of mine via the internet to send a key. half a dozen social networking sites, email, AIM, MSN, forums…

Someone has to have the corresponding key in order to make the alphabet soup back into readable text. If you can guarantee the person you’re sending to has the key and is set up to use it, then sure, knock yourself out. How many people are you really going to correspond with that have the technical knowhow to use your key with their email software, though?