Thanks to K. today will become “C-Day“. Hope you got something like Firefox or Safari to see what it means…
K. is someone who – albeit he does not seem to fear big brother as much as M. does – uses GnuPG or its derivatives extensively for his regular email communication. (Just a sidenote: No, this is not going to be one of these special brain-teasers where you got to find out who is finally the murderer of someone else you never knew.) Back to topic: So K. was the one to force me into C-Day. The last time I got an email from K. he was kind enough to send it unencrypted as I just switched to an other operating system setup and had not found time to install (or merely configuration was the problem, installation would have worked out O.K.) GnuPG and Enigmail for Thunderbird, yet. That said guess what happened when I – about 1/2 year later – got another encrypted mail from K.? You’re right. Of course I had not found the time to install and configure GnuPG in between. Albeit other things I needed (and still need) to do urgently, I felt unwell telling K. that I had not been able to get everything up by now so I thought: “Why not do it right away?”.
I know, I know, you are waiting for the big sentence. Here it comes: And that was a failure. A miserable failure. Unfortunately this has been written down only to ensure you that I know what you were just waiting for. I have to tell you: I just made it and everything was fine. Sounds unusual, but it finally worked out like a charm.
However: After I had set up all the things and decrypted the mail K. sent I was a bit surprised. Actually it was about some certificates we use for secure mail services on our servers that had unfortunately expired. As I told you: Thanks to K. today is “C-Day”. And I’m right in the middle of it. I’m getting through slowly, however.
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