do any of you encript anything?

[greedy_lars]

curious.

[JackSpratts]

just whatever my browser does automatically. nothing else. i bought pgp but never used it. certainly nothing heavy like steganography or any of that stealthy stuff. dunno tho, the way the us is going who knows. bush wants a new citizen army of millions of neighborhood spies keeping us all warm and safe as 3 year olds. but i'm kind of naughty and maybe i don't want mom knowing everything i do. might be time to put new covers on my books...

- js.

[alphabeater]

oddly enough, i don't either, unless you count my recent messing with freenet (it seems to be getting gradually faster as i use it more, but there's still not much out there). i don't really do anything over the internet at present that i don't mind sending around in plaintext.

crypto isn't something i can really be bothered with day-to-day, it's more of a safety net - interesting to play with and learn about, and nice to know it's there should i ever happen to need it.

[Jader]

Occasionally I'll encrypt e-mails, depending on their nature and the recipient.

[JackSpratts]

Originally posted by alphabeater
...unless you count my recent messing with freenet (it seems to be getting gradually faster as i use it more, but there's still not much out there).

try using freenet for documents and other small files instead of movies or mp3s. freenet caches files, with the most requested querries cached on the most nodes. that takes major resources. it's like a giant hard drive that suffers with search, cpu and rpm problems. docs tho can get around pretty fast because of their size advantage and freenet can learn the longer you use it and that helps too. it kind of figures out what you're into and sticks around that part of town where your stuff is likely to be found.

- js.

[alphabeater]

Originally posted by JackSpratts
try using freenet for documents and other small files instead of movies or mp3s.

even just looking for documents and pages to read, i find that most are inaccessible (i get 'network error' even when specifying the maximum 25 hops-to-live on the search).

an interesting and seemingly reliable alternative use of freenet is iip - the invisible irc project. it needs freenet installed to work and then asks you to connect a standard irc client (eg. mirc) to localhost:6667. as i understand it, this is essentially a completely anonymous irc server - your ip can't be found out, even by the server itself.

i hope more uses like this will start to appear, although it'd be nice if the basic site browsing functions would work as reliably too.

[greedy_lars]

Originally posted by JackSpratts
dunno tho, the way the us is going who knows. bush wants a new citizen army of millions of neighborhood spies keeping us all warm and safe as 3 year olds

strange isnt it. i currently dont encrypt anything, but my political views are not exactly mainstream, and wouldent it just be cool if the feds came charging in, grabed yer box, then found out everything on it was encripted well enough to be a real pain in the ass. ahhahahaha. not like im worried about that happening, but what if.

[assorted]

I can't encrypt because of the recipients. None of my friends use or want to bother learning encryption. Since the most illegal my emails run is light drug purchasing (always kept without details) and some not so serious warez tips (for software that's under $3,000 total of course (COUGH)) I don't get too concerned.

But I certainly wish encryption was more accepted among the masses because by nature I would prefer to encrypt everything by default.

[napho]

It never even occurs to me.