signing keys
Davide Cavallari
floods@libero.it
Mon Jan 28 21:59:02 2002
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:15:08PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> The perceived benefit in terms of authentication comes from consistency.
> If someone has been announcing for years that they use a given key and
> suddenly you get a mail purporting to be from them but not using that
> key then the idea is that that will set off alarm bells.
yes, but this is true also if no information at all is specified, it is
only time the point, not the fingerprint or URL in email headers.
> There's also the idea that doing things like this spreads awareness of
> GPG.
yes, I think so
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Davide Cavallari
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