[KLUG Advocacy] PGP & Hushmail On NPR

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Rather amusing.  I did a search on npr for hushmail to see if I could
> download, but no luck.

It seems to be some sort of webmail,  you can only send encrypted e-mail
between hushmail users using the hushmail interface (or so it seems).
So what are they using internally?  

http://www.hushmail.com/

"Hush uses industry standard algorithms as specified by the Open PGP
standard (RFC 2440) to ensure the security, privacy and authenticity of
your email. With Hushmail, users need only create and remember their own
passphrases, and the secure Hushmail server does the rest. Encryption
and decryption are transparent to the user, making Hushmail the most
user-friendly secure mail solution available. Through the Hush
Encryption Engine™, the Hush key servers take care of Public/Private key
exchange in a completely seamless fashion. When a user wishes to
encrypt/decrypt data or verify/sign a signature, a connection is
automatically made to a Hush Key Server to retrieve the necessary
Public/Private Key. It's that simple! Only Hush's solution provides such
a high level of security combined with total ease of use. The
descriptions below will give you an overview of how the Hush system
secures email".


> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 07:31 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: 
> > So did anyone else hear the amusingly timely report on NPR this morning
> > concerning encrypted e-mail?  What the *@&$*(@ is Hushmail?  And PGP
> > gets a plug but no mention of GPG?  Grrrr....  Apparently the Center for
> > Democracy and Technology has a notable absence of technology people.
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