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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sudev Barar wrote:
>2008/9/11 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> but C is
>>>> not convinced and is casting aspersion on A and D of
>>>> showing tampered
>>>> emails.
>>>>
>>>
>>>A basic check that I will do is - get full mail headers of mail sent to D 
>>>and of that sent to C, read headers from bottom to up to find the 
>>>discrepancy.
>>
>> Don't you think in that case, the result will be negative, since mail header 
>> in mail
>> sent to D != mail sent to C because, both the mails are originating from
>> different sources.
>
>Exactly the problem. And D does not have access to machines of A or B.
>Only original email of A sent to him and B and access to C.
>
>How does pgp signature generate hash and is there something out there
>which could be fed in given text and public key of A to generate hash
>and compare it with hash appearing on the emaiil copy or C as
>forwarded by B?

Good time to start using PGP :). Lets have a key-signing party this software 
freedom day :).

Ashish
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