Sat, 02 Jul 2005, by robin1.listas@tiscali.es:
The Saturday 2005-07-02 at 07:44 -0400, ken wrote:
The only reasons I can see at this time for gpg-signing email would be to prove that someone has tampered with the contents of your email and/or to prove that the email came from you.
Exactly so. Some one was routinely forging email with in my name, on a SuSE list....
But we've never met IRL, so how do I know that that GPG id 6D8D47D5 belongs to the real mr. Carlos E.R. (who, for all we know, could be an avid Windows XP enthousiast who only ever sees MSDN)? Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.