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Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it withputting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

  • From: Brad Knowles
  • Date: Mon Jul 15 11:44:07 2002 
At 3:45 PM -0400 2002/07/10, Andy Dills wrote:


 Lest anybody confuse my argument, I think PGP signatures are a good thing.
 I just don't think people need to sign everything they send. And I'm
 talking about posts to Nanog here, not private communication. In private
 communication, it's reasonable to sign most everything sent with official
 business purpose.
No. It is precisely the public e-mail messages which should always be signed, since they are the ones likely to reach the largest audience, and the ones that are likely to have the biggest negative impact if they are successfully spoofed.

You should sign all private e-mail, too, but the public e-mail messages are the ones that need it the most.

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Brad Knowles, <[email protected]>

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