This article was very helpful, for users of email and IM, and also for computer people like me who are not security experts. However, I use Mozilla Thunderbird for email at work, a secure environment, and recently had to plug in GNU OpenPGP to send a secure email to someone in another company. This was a task, my system admin had to get involved to help, and it was still a task, one that a laptop user would have difficulty with. Since security is such a sensitive issue nowadays I don't understand why email and IM packages are not already setup with these plugins. I hope people like Scott who are plugged-in to these issues and my have the ears of these providers can propagate this across the industry. As for people like me and Philip, we just want to get the job done, not spend our day reading pages of tech note instructions and playing with plugins.

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