On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 06:02:55PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Brad Templeton wrote:
The question is, what percentage of news sites are confirming newgroup
with pgpverify? I haven't tracked in a while, but back when I was
using it (1.5 years ago) the answer was few.
I haven't tracked it worldwide, but here in Munich it's about 80% of the
"important" news sites.
Wow, it's really grown if that's true, which is good to see. And indicates
that support for a 3rd party article signing standard would be strong
right away. PGPverify wasn't too bad as a first stab, though it's main
flaws were:
a) Used PGP, a then-proprietary external program
b) Needed a bulky header list
c) Didn't sign the body