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Encryption doesn't mean secure. ROT13 (or any Caesar Cipher) could technically be called an encryption method, but no sane person would consider it secure.


That’s silly. If your boss tells you, “make sure you use encrypted e-mail”, would you be able to get away with rot13? Used casually, the phrase “encrypted e-mail” means securely encrypted e-mail.


Since when has my boss ever been the arbiter of what is secure or not? My bosses happily turned on "secure links" in exchange so that now you can't see where the link in the email goes without clicking on it and following it.

Meanwhile we continue to have users who click on phishing emails, real and test.




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