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That's pretty cool. I followed Mark's links to PGP stuff, and the new software is a heck of a lot easier to use. I used to have to do all the encryption and decryption by hand, and it was such a pain. Especially with a passcode of over 60 characters that I had to remember and use every time and got wrong a lot. Having the little bar to tell me what was a reasonable passcode was really useful. I'm glad my old key has expired so I can actually use a more reasonable passcode. I'm far more likely to use it.

Still, what Mark said is very true, usage of PGP really is a web kind of thing, it's really hard to use with people that don't have it all set up for themselves as well. I've only ever used it with one other person really on a regular basis, and I've now got several meg of correspondence that I can't read anymore. Oops.

Thing is, I do really hate the idea of people looking at my e-mail just for the sake of looking at all my e-mail. Eventhough I'm pretty sure there's nothing harmful in anything I write it's just the invasion of privacy. It's funny 'cause I know someone who's militantly against invasion of privacy by the government, but he's someone who also emphatically will not use PGP, his outrage is that the government does it at all and it just boggles me mildly that he won't take the steps to insure his privacy when he's so outraged. Instead he just rails against how our government shouldn't do what it does. Then again, here I am putting a whole lot of my life into the public domain through my journals, so who am I to worry about privacy? I dunno. I guess the difference is in what I choose or don't choose to make public.

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That's pretty cool. I followed Mark's links to PGP stuff, and the new software is a heck of a lot easier to use. I used to have to do all the encryption and decryption by hand, and it was such a pain. Especially with a passcode of over 60 characters that I had to remember and use every time and got wrong a lot. Having the little bar to tell me what was a reasonable passcode was really useful. I'm glad my old key has expired so I can actually use a more reasonable passcode. I'm far more likely to use it.

Still, what Mark said is very true, usage of PGP really is a web kind of thing, it's really hard to use with people that don't have it all set up for themselves as well. I've only ever used it with one other person really on a regular basis, and I've now got several meg of correspondence that I can't read anymore. Oops.

Thing is, I do really hate the idea of people looking at my e-mail just for the sake of looking at all my e-mail. Eventhough I'm pretty sure there's nothing harmful in anything I write it's just the invasion of privacy. It's funny 'cause I know someone who's militantly against invasion of privacy by the government, but he's someone who also emphatically will not use PGP, his outrage is that the government does it at all and it just boggles me mildly that he won't take the steps to insure his privacy when he's so outraged. Instead he just rails against how our government shouldn't do what it does. Then again, here I am putting a whole lot of my life into the public domain through my journals, so who am I to worry about privacy? I dunno. I guess the difference is in what I choose or don't choose to make public.

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Ah well, so much for 'expired'. The key stash at pgp.mit.edu still has a bunch of the old keys. Still, it's for a very old account, so I'm not so sad. Since I signed a bunch of my friends' keys, I'll at least have a few secure keys to start.

The day's been good. Fridays usually are. Everyone is out on a walk at the moment, and it's a hot, sunny day. The leaves are starting to turn gold, and everything is pointing towards fall.

Jet's been having a pretty good day today, too. He was only up twice the last two nights, so that's definitely better. He gets tired from the day's attention, but he seems to enjoy it a very great deal. He's even napping. Amazing.

I'm too caught up in work to have tremendously interesting days, but this weekend we're likely going to go up into the mountains to just look at the turning aspens. They say that the valleys turn to fluttering gold up there. So we'll get to see for ourselves, maybe even find some significant ground water to sit by and just listen to it run. We'll get to see how Jet does on long car trips or if he's just going to sleep through them and then do terribly at night. It'll be interesting all in all. It'll be something of a trial run for Orycon, to see how Jet does in hotel rooms, and how he does away from home now that he's much larger and much more active. We'll see if he really can sleep in a dresser drawer. Hee.

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Ah well, so much for 'expired'. The key stash at pgp.mit.edu still has a bunch of the old keys. Still, it's for a very old account, so I'm not so sad. Since I signed a bunch of my friends' keys, I'll at least have a few secure keys to start.

The day's been good. Fridays usually are. Everyone is out on a walk at the moment, and it's a hot, sunny day. The leaves are starting to turn gold, and everything is pointing towards fall.

Jet's been having a pretty good day today, too. He was only up twice the last two nights, so that's definitely better. He gets tired from the day's attention, but he seems to enjoy it a very great deal. He's even napping. Amazing.

I'm too caught up in work to have tremendously interesting days, but this weekend we're likely going to go up into the mountains to just look at the turning aspens. They say that the valleys turn to fluttering gold up there. So we'll get to see for ourselves, maybe even find some significant ground water to sit by and just listen to it run. We'll get to see how Jet does on long car trips or if he's just going to sleep through them and then do terribly at night. It'll be interesting all in all. It'll be something of a trial run for Orycon, to see how Jet does in hotel rooms, and how he does away from home now that he's much larger and much more active. We'll see if he really can sleep in a dresser drawer. Hee.