Erin: >do you seal the envelope when you send in your water bill? >do you sign the check? we're not really talking as much about >encryption here as we are about signatures...
a three year old can subvert any security based on sealing an envelope and an ink signature is *trivially* forged by *anybody* - no education required. i equate both those things with me hitting the send button on my email. in fact, email is more secure (if you can even call it security) than snail mail because at least someone has to be educated enough to run snoop to read my email. Andrew: >Oh, yeah? Well... well, my dad can beat up your dad. >This "discussion" is just plain silly. i'm not sure i get your insinuation, but discussing the relative necessity of authentication/encryption for email doesnt seem like a silly discussion to me. bah, this thread has gone on too long, and those who are open to new ideas have already benefited (me included.) Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew McNabb Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:06 AM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] Free Pizza At UUG Meeting On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:22:10PM -0700, Josh Coates wrote: > christmas cards are about as trivial as this mailing list to me, and > pgp is about as serious as dna/fingerprints in my book. > Oh, yeah? Well... well, my dad can beat up your dad. This "discussion" is just plain silly. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
