On Wednesday 02 Feb 2011, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > 2011/2/2 Nitesh Mistry <[email protected]>: > > the messages with pgp keys is more meaningful than you just writing > > your name below every message. Because anybody can write any name > > below the message, but nobody other than me can pgp sign a message > > with key id A6FEF696. If you want a proof that the name mentioned > > on the key A6FEF696 is really Nitesh Mistry, you are always > > welcome to meet me and I can give all the documents in the world > > to prove it (and no I won't bite you ;) ). > > The point from day one is that it carries no additional meaning in a > mailing list context; all you are doing is reducing the S/N. If you > cannot grasp that, why bother?
I don't agree that signing messages is reducing S/N on a list. PGP/GPG signing does accomplish the following: - Encourage more people to ask questions about and hopefully adopt privacy-friendly practices in public communications. - Establish a non-repudiable ownership of the content of the message. - Establish prior art in case you put an idea into a message which someone steals. I sign messages to mailing lists on a regular (if infrequent) basis, never had a complaint yet. Of course, if Nitesh' key isn't available for download from a keyserver then the effectiveness of the signing does go down, but it still serves the same basic functions. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves
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