On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:47:20 +0100 CJB <[email protected]> wrote: > More to the point what was that file attached to your post? > > smime.7ps > > ????? CJB
It's a cryptographic signature showing that the email has been cryptographically signed by David's private key, which you can then 'test' using his public key to make sure that he (the owner of the private key specifically) was the one that signed (and therefore likely sent) that message. At least, that's how it would work for the GPG version of this tech. I think this particular implementation David is using might be a little different to the way GPG does it but it does the same sort of thing. In short, it's nothing nefarious, it's actually used to make email more trustworthy in that it lets you know he sent it and not someone pretending to be him. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
