Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Sat, 02 Jul 2005, by robin1.listas@tiscali.es:
I like that "claimer", I might steal it O:-) - but I'm interested in some other thing, those gpg headers of yours:
X-GPG-id: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 71F8... X-GPG-key: Use keyserver...
Do you mean that that header includes a gpg signature of your mail contents? What can we use the check it? I have tried Pine, Balsa, Mozilla, and kmail: none mentions anything about it. :-?
I don't know about balsa and kmail, but both MozillaMail and pine can handle gpg-signed email and sign outgoing email. Google will turn up good hits for you.
I used to sign with GPG, but I'm not really convinced anymore that it is a usefull thing on mailinglist, so I stopped doing that. However, if someone wants to send me an encrypted mail for any reason, he or she can still find the neccessary info in my headers to do so.
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.
Theo
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