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Re: PGP Signatures



On Monday 27 Jan 2003 2:51 pm, debian parisc wrote:
> It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95
> (I'm at work), that they have no significance.

If you are using pgp you can verify the authenticity of the message - i.e. it 
comes from who the 'from' line says, rather than someone else. It also 
verifies that the message hasnt been altered during transmission. (This is a 
simplistic explanation, see www.gnupg.org for more).

Tom

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