Re: "The OpenPGP mail and news header" extenssion

Ben Laurie wrote:
> David Srbecky wrote:
>
> > OpenPGP: id=b565717f; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt; preference=sign
> >
> > Sender wants to receive signed unencrypted messages.
>
> Why would I care whether the sender wants to receive signed messages?
You want to be polite and help to enhance the security.

> Surely its all about whether I want to sign my messages? His preference
> is irrelevant, 
Using preference=sign he explicitly expresses that he *wants* to receive
signed messages. For example some people do not sign messages to
maillist, but if the maillist sends you preference=sign, it means that
it really *wants* signed messages.

> he can check the signature or not as he pleases.
How can he do that if you do not sign the message?



The same holds for preference=encrypt.

David

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