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Re: authenticated email

2003-06-06 03:31:09
Haren writes:

If SMTP server uses certification authentication
to trace all messages easily. And each mail adds
the SMTP's server's public key and then is
signed by the SMTP on the message, so when you
receive it you know if the signature does not verify
it has been tampered.

This is a truckload of additional overhead, though.  Not only that, but even
a slight modification of the signed text will invalidate all the signatures.
Then what?




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