Teemu Likonen <[email protected]> wrote: > * 2025-08-31 13:59:24+0100, [email protected] wrote: > > > So I think you would have to impress on him your particular (and > > peculiar?) desire to keep your message private. > > I think reasonable people _want_ to be trustworthy. Simple. No need to > impress them first. Only unreasonable people would think: > > "I'm trustworthy only if you impress me first." > "I'm trustworthy only for the people who are important enough." > "I can judge better which things are secrets and which are not." > "I may reveal secrets of people who I consider unimportant." > > If a recipient sends my encrypted text as plain text I know that he is > not trustworthy. But this can also be the problem of tools, and my > original message was more about that.
I think you misunderstand my use of the phrase 'impress on'. The way I used it, it approximately means persuade. Unless you explained your reasoning I think he would conclude that sending secret messages about Debian was unlikely to be helpful to the community at large.
