Jerry typing away here, though I am sure Lee will pipe up when he has a chance.
There are some pretty good tutorials about digital signatures out there: http://joar.com/certificates/ or http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Power_User_Monday_Tip_of_the_Week/226 There is not much need to sign messages sent to the users group, but if you choose to do so, then go ahead. The software running this show has been upgraded to work with differing signature schemes (this message is signed for instance). One thing I should point out about getting a signature. It is flat out recommended that you get different signatures for using different email addresses but if you want to use the same email address on different machines, then you can use the same signature also on the different machines. To do this means you will have to export the signature to the various machines you will use it on. Safari (at least last time I checked) does not allow the signature to be saved in a manner that makes this easy to do (nor does Keychain). So if you need to use the things in multiple places follow the instructions using Mozilla to get your signature: http://joar.com/certificates/mozilla.html Jerry On Nov 09, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > Lee, how do we go about digitally signing mail and does it work > through our group mail now? I remember it doing "things" to the > program when Bill signed digitally and did not turn it off first > posting to the group? > Marta > On Nov 9, 2004, at 13:01, Lee Larson wrote: > >> On Nov 9, 2004, at 12:05 PM, S. Blake smelled something: >> >>> Something fishy is going on here, but I don't know what. This >>> "sender" copied my e-mail address. I have also gotten a bounce-back >>> that I was supposed to have sent to someone in my address book-- but >>> with the prefix 3D. >> >> You can probably thank one of your Windows-using friends for this. >> There are several worms and viruses on Windows that search the >> infected machine for e-mail addresses. When it finds your address, it >> sends out an infected e-mail that looks like it came from you. >> >> There are also spammers who use this technique. >> >> This is why some of us champion digitally signed mail. If everyone >> signed their mail, this type of spoofing would go away because we >> could just throw away mail that wasn't signed. The spoofing program >> cannot duplicate your signature. ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2670 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041109/5c2f37c9/attachment.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041109/5c2f37c9/attachment-0001.bin
