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On 2020年8月10日 16:55:51 -0400 Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: > It makes zero sense to send stuff unencrypted. Even if you don't > trust every certificate out there, you're more secure using encryption > with an untrusted certificate, than you are not using encryption. I wouldn't say zero sense, and here's why... Encryption takes a lot of work. You need to ride herd over all your keys and all your certificates. I've heard there's one zero-cost certificate vendor whose certificates last only 3 months, so unless you're extremely good at doing the right things at the right times, your website's going to go down or your email's going to screw up. Nobody I know has ever published a very simple "here's how you keep everything encrypted all the time" document for the person starting from zero (like me). The docs out there all assume I know terminology I don't, entity relationships I don't, and simple commands that for me aren't so simple. Also, I'm not so sure how my email client (claws-mail) would handle encryption and certs. If you know of good, simple documentation about how to do this stuff simply, please let me know. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug