Re: OT: More about GPG signing
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:25:39PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 18:40 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> > Hello Tony,
> >
> > Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> > > What is the benefit of such a signature?
> >
> > Those who know him now can verify the signature. In addition, if at
> > any later stage someone else claims to have posted this message, the
> > OP can prove that it was indeed him who posted it. Everybody else
> > interested in either the OP or the message can also verify the
> > signature (though that might require some work to, for example, meet
> > the OP personally).
>
> And what is the benefit of this on an open mailing list?
> To ensure that somebody called or didn't call somebody else names, gave
> right or wrong information? IMO this is infantile. Don't get me wrong!
> I'm not against signing, if other people wish to do. It anyway is
> senseless.
>
Be careful now Ralf, some people consider their e-peens sacred!
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