-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjIm4IACgkQHy+EEHYuXnQ1fQCfZQVF/6///+mNONQp/fSO5RLM VHQAoKe6ETfTN0+HpQKoEXWmWbCfVdUY =AQdI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
