-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/8/13 5:09 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > > On 9/8/2013 6:21 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 9/8/13 3:50 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: >>> >>> What's the upside to signing my email? I know why I want >>> everybody I know to sign my email, but what's the upside for me >>> if I do it? Until there's a clear win, it's not going to >>> happen. >> >> There are two that I see: >> >> 1. Since it's quite easy to send faked messages (and I have seen >> that done on public lists in an effort to embarrass or impugn the >> sender), signing one's messages makes it clear that the message >> really came from you. >> >> 2. Signing one's messages is a way of advertising that one is >> capable of engaging in encrypted communication. (This might not >> be a welcome analogy, but it's kind of like open carry for >> encryption.) >> >> Peter > > But until the MUAs across the board support it out of the box, I > believe most people don't know about it or know what it means.
So that's an opportunity to educate people. For instance, perhaps the Internet Society might be interested in taking on that task. We don't need 100% of everything in order to make incremental improvements. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSLQYXAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pm9MP/25ryFGrQXCD0oPmzXCckZq+ LgC82HQaY19vBrVfE4VPSX/6P0Ss8KxOju3pyX3AYT/JrFBu27GlSGkSPdbnBaaF TDRWpbzw0bcqTeEFPP/OTHcgRf9ywL7W+eix2DSl/wFti8YnKlSnqxtOcRmzmlRn Q2ddHs6khNHR34xP7B0846ffmkJPa1N/KAxI8Og/5C9amYL8xbn3U6y0rQz3+D0u OhYgPTrTO63tbGgQI1p/3PUUgIIBVceadOQYJL6NgTXjnIf4n3/9GmKyFd+3XM8P q/bpQz74zOMAgCC4289TSD3M6ym/j6yvL/Ji4dBNJNxDgR1d03Lx4O7RsTq1Gn4n wduiz8hVSQv+j+hObfifQlnSEZu/FfTZAOTfryqWqPKfYSISchzot+9r3hNeIcTt a5MsQLgIQYPsLMWFTqf9tjNYUfT0WU7g0N3ReFy94TI85E0L6EHtmOd0vrGBBad8 VFquZeZ4MfdP0Z3rQ2hgh5pRE84uNmGEpKQ9th/lBPwUurFEUgnK+vdH4MvCT3sQ IWFG4S8l5WkGo2+BI33Pz2X4hGs/Dczhd3m7g9kWdUauHLg9iPGkpupsMWAEWK3i BRGpIod4bBJMyuXKRNCHuD1nW/egmeGKdX3an+ClgUOekVmR2aAeUa/xZWyhExtK Xr418Yr6rXvhVrmxb59L =blPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
