Re: PGP again (was: square brackets and rfc822)

[Ian Petersen]

Dierk,

> a) a message and a mail address belong together, and
> b) a message has not been tinkered with.

They are both important things in many, if not most, email situations.
But I still maintain they are irrelevent on an informal public discussion list.

> There are good reasons to use PGP ...
> always. some people don't like it for perhaps equally good reasons

I'm not in any way against PGP or other forms of digital security.
They are undoubtedly very important tools in modern digital
communication. However, I reserve the right to find it just a little
comical that people feel the need to digitally sign their messages in
places such as this.

But as Greg so wisely said, I think we will have to agree to differ.


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PGP again (was: square brackets and rfc822)

[Dierk Haasis]

Hello Ian!

On Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 6:48:43 PM you wrote:

> PGP (or similar) sigs are unneccessary on public mailing lists because
> everyone is equally unknown to everyone else.

Wrong. PGP doesn't claim to verify the people but only that

   a) a message and a mail address belong together, and
   b) a message has not been tinkered with.

To cut a stupid story short: There are good reasons to use PGP ...
always. some people don't like it for perhaps equally good reasons
(admittedly this is my politically correct part of this message).

Nothing more to it.

Pragmatics: I side with Marck, Allie, Leif, Wolfgang, they at least
should go on signing their messages.



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