On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 22:30, Mario Neubert wrote:
This is a security-list not a secret list. Security interests me, but I am not paranoid. My question: Does this signing of a messages play a role for others here in the list?
Well, signing's just a helpful way of verifying the sender of a message is who they say they are. It's quite strange that Outlook (Was it outlook you were using?) doesn't read the signed messages. I seem to remember it coping quite happily when I used to use it. If you'd installed a PGP tool and its Outlook plug-in, it would verify the signature for you, if not, then the signature would just appear as it does in plain text, just like happens in KMail, which I'm using now... I mean, the messages themselves are still in plain text, and if a mail client can't read them, there must be something very wrong with it. Have you installed PGP or anything similar? Or does Outlook do PGP itself these days? Might be worth trying a re-install of Outlook... I'll rarely double-check a signature unless it's on something like a security announcement, or if there's already some doubt about the sender, but I have no objections to seeing them. It seems more appropriate on a security list. M -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon