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Jean-Francois Stenuit <jfs(_at_)skynet(_dot_)be> writes:
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Charles Lindsey wrote:
There is a strongly perceived need within the Usenet-Format group for
a reliable method for the digital signing of headers. It would, on the
face of it, be foolish to devise a mechanism applicable to news that
would not work also for email, even though that does indeed make the
mechanism more complex.
IMHO, there should be two different schemes for NNTP and SMTP messages,
because the reason for signing the header is different.
The reasons may be different, but the mechanisms can be the same.
The chief reason for having the same mechanisms is that articles may get
gatewayed from news to mail, or vice versa, and one wishes the signature
mechanisms to survive the transition so far as may be possible.
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