On Thursday 25 September 2003 21:33, Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering, how can I verify that an email really arrived from
> where it claims? For example, how does the mailing list program know
> that this mail really came from me? I saw nothing in the headers that
> allows it.

It's very simple - it doesn't. You can sometime make some inteligent 
guesses based on SMTP headers, but nothing really secure.

If you want (pretty) good  authenticity use GPG.

Gilad

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Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://benyossef.com


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