PGP: looking for advice on settings

[Steve Lamb]

Wednesday, March 22, 2000, 12:22:10 PM, Andrew wrote:
> 1. Remember my passphrase this session: defaults to yes, I assume
> it's safe to do this.

    Pretty much, yes.

> 2. Sign every outgoing message: I think this defaulted to "no" but
> I changed that to "yes".  The message I'm now composing has that
> button selected, I assume all I have to do is de-select it if I
> want to override for some strange reason?

    Some people will bitch, but yeah, this is good.

> 3. Include public key on every outgoing message: defaults to "no".
> Should I be doing this?  This would seem pretty pushy since they
> should only need to get it once, right?

    Correct.  Create a filter to send it if they request it and put the key up
on the public servers and you should be cool.

> 4. Include public key fingerprint on every outgoing message:  what
> about this?  The help file (which I never find useful) merely says
> "With this option turned on, your public key fingerprint is
> included at the end of all your messages."  I could have guessed
> that. :(

    Really isn't needed, kind of redundant on a signing.  ;)

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