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Re: "The OpenPGP mail and news header" extenssion

2005-08-15 22:51:20
On Monday 15 August 2005 11:29, Ben Laurie wrote:
Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
On the other hand: not signing weakens the receivers trust into the
sender. Just as an example: I can't be sure that your advise to not use
signatures comes from a knowledgable OpenPGP expert, it could as well
come from a spammer lobbying against the use of crypto because it harms
his business model.

True enough, but the argument should stand no matter who I am.

If you want to protect against spam using signatures there are other
ways to do it that don't involve signing the content.

Hmm, bad example. I do not want to protect myself agains spam using 
signatures (bayes filters are far more useful in that area), I want to 
protect myself against impostors claiming to be trustworthy people and fool 
me into doing something stupid.


        Konrad

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