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Re: User-to-User or Server-to-Server mail encryption

2004-09-19 15:45:50

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Andrew Newton wrote:

Really?  Have you ever sent a message through Yahoo Groups?  Many of the
public list services like to tack adds on to the email causing the signatures
not to validate.

The framing used by PGP means that mailing list bumf falls outside the
signed portion of the message, so the signature is robust.

Tony.
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