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

[Sean McMahon]

For a while I had a free encryption key from thawte I don't know if this is pgp
though.
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: confirm blah, or why signing mail may be a good idea.


> 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
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
> >
> > iD8DBQFAR2vc5JK61UXLur0RAqybAJ9erKmYuGd+34dQboU60dE6RgUB3gCeIaVJ
> > FeFLgjGgbdsdoIkqBBkdkiM=
> > =WaMv
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >
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