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

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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GPG is open and free, compatible with PGP, using the same
keyservers, and there are no fees or charges for publishing a
key. Do not confuse this encryption method with the MS 3rd party
"cert" alternatives that some sources seem to be pushing.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Sean McMahon wrote:

> 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:
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> > > 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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> > >
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