RE: PGP question
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 23-Feb-99 Stephen Pitts wrote:
> > Reply-To:
> > This is just out of curiosity..not meant to be flamebait :-)
> > Those of you who PGP sign your messages, why do you do it?
> > I've looked into getting PGP several times, and I have a PGP-
> > compliant mail-reader, but is there any advantage in signing
> > your messages?
>
> On many lists, people will get annoyed by the sigs, almost as though one had
> used HTML.
>
> That is why I quit doing it :)
I don't really think PGP signatures are that bad. Some people get annoyed
when they can't figure out how to read the signature...
The reason that PGP signatures are used is so that you can verify that the
email REALLY came from the person that signed it. An email is
rediculously easy to fake, while a PGP signature is virtually impossible
to falsify.
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