Thursday, May 10, 2001, 10:42:54 AM, you wrote:
> Thursday, May 10, 2001, 12:25:32 PM, David Elliott wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> I want to know what good does all this PGP signing do? I have
> checked the patterns from a few e-mail messages sent by the same
> person and the above signature is never the same... then how can
> I tell that that's not an impersonator ?
You have to use the PGP plugins to verify the signature. Each signature
is unique to the message (it is based on it's contents) and the sender.
The signature allows you to verify that:
1) the message actually came from the sender
2) the message hasn't been altered.
If you have PGP/OpenPGP and have it set up in TB!, then you should be
able to have the signature checked automatically. Also, you can
configure TB! to add this signature to each of your outgoing messages,
which is what these people have done.
Using The Bat! v1.51 on Windows NT 5.0
Build 2195
mct
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