I do not understand this thread. I am using kmail and his signature is not a 1000 lines long I receive "message was signed with unknown key xxxxx. The validity of the signature can't be verified. I was going to start using pgp to sign my e-mails but now I am not sure as certain MUA seem to have a problem. :-( I do not want to be flamed. I thought if some one wishes to use a signature it was upto them. This is not America where the wishes of one person are pushed onto the rest of the world. :-( Ian On Saturday 22 March 2003 06:52, Mitch Thompson wrote:
On Friday 21 March 2003 14:10, David Herman wrote:
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:42 am, James Oakley wrote:
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 used pgp ocasionally on my amiga years ago, but at the time I was much less active sending e-mail, I plan to start using it again (gpg) as a result of this thread.
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In these times of diminishing freedoms (in some cases a total re-definition of what freedom is), it is important to preserve the rights you have in order to save them from extinction. Signing messages helps to protect these rights merely through its visibility.
The more people who use privacy, authenticity procedures, the more dificult it becomes to restrict these rights.
Which was one of the main reasons I began using PGP/gpg on a regular basis. My belief is it should be universal. This is my way of promoting signing messages. The fact that is not universal, I think, owes to the fact that it is difficult to get that "web of trust" going. It's difficult to get the "web of trust" going, because pgp signing is not universal.
BTW, the fact that the *length* of my key is offensive to some is not a selling point for me to stop using it. If, as it turns out, it is the fact that it is an ElGamal-based key rather than DSA-based key which is causing the problem will be the factor that causes me to change my key. In fact, I have already generated a 2048-bit DSA key and uploaded it to wwwkeys.us.pgp.net. I'll start using it as soon as I generate a revokation of my current key.
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