* James Oakley
On Thursday 20 March 2003 03:00 pm, Chris Geske wrote:
Can anyone honestly say they have had such important emails that they had to use pgp to confirm the sender?
I know a ton of people who use to use pgp a few years ago, none of them are currently using it!
I send analytical data to our clients, and I could see the use of pgp in that case. But com'n, using pgp in mail lists is a little overboard.
It's more important in public mailing lists, IMO. Imagine if someone sent an email to the list, pretending to be me, saying that my apt server moved to another host. This theoretical evil guy could have put trojans in the packages. If the signature fails, people will be wary.
Also, imagine if someone in your company posted your company's secrets on the list, pretending to be you. If you can't prove that you didn't do it, you could be fired/sued.
But, your pgp sig block is *not* 15-20 lines long, either. -- Patrick Shanahan Please avoid TOFU and trim >quotes< http://wahoo.no-ip.org Registered Linux User #207535 icq#173753138 @ http://counter.li.org Linux, a continuous *learning* experience