on 8/2/2002 5:59 PM Keith Moore wrote:
"Both problems" are forged senders,
If signed mail were the norm, viruses would send out signed mail.
If they needed to get a pass phrase from the human user, they would
do that.
If that were the problem at hand, this might even be a reasonable point.
The problem at hand -- the one that started this thread -- is forgery, and
the lack of protection against it.
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