confirm blah, or why signing mail may be a good idea.

[Steve Holmes]

I've seen PGP stuff in mail for years but never really grasped how one
could really validate the key and such.  Can you point one to some
intro docs to get us started? I don't want to have to read 10 volumes
on advanced data encryption schemes  to get a clue but at least some
basic steps on how to configure mutt / pine and how the process works
and whether or not I should register my public key; that would be a
pay service, would it not?  Any way, sorry for the dumb questions but
if it is all that valuable, I might as well get on board:).

Thanks for any help.

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:48:12AM -0600, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> The surprisingly large response to a message that had all the halmarks
> of a virus just made me want to point out that pgp signing your mail all the
> time ensures that other list participants won't mistake spam/viruses
> that use your address in the from line for messages from you. I have received a number of
> messages from polite to vitriolic accusing me of sending out viruses
> just because of a few posts I have made to forums which were mirrored to
> usenet and therefore my address got slirped into a database for spam and
> viruses. I hate to be obnoxious about it, but pgp signing your mail is
> IMHO the best way to prove that the virus that crashes your grandma's
> computer wasn't really from you. Sorry for the rant. Aaahhh for the good
> old days when a rant like this was the worst thing in my inbox.
> 
> - -- 
> Clarke's Corollary:
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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> FeFLgjGgbdsdoIkqBBkdkiM=
> =WaMv
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