[Gloucs] Signed Emails

Simon Lewis simonlewis at bluebottle.com
Fri Oct 6 17:41:40 BST 2006


I think there may be some confusion about the usefulness of signing  
*all* email.

Unless you have been given in person [1] the fingerprint and you have  
some physical way of associating a signed email with the person there  
is very little value in signing your email.  I would say [guess] that  
most people do not have the additions to their mail reader to allow  
for a key to be authenticated/downloaded.

</rant>

Or maybe I should get myself a mail client that pretty prints the pgp  
headers...



[1] http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/ 
keysigning_party.html




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