On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Dave Aronson wrote:
On Wed February 25 2004 09:53, John Stracke wrote:
> Dave Aronson wrote:
> > Requiring digsigs on a list would help cut down on spammers forging
> > list members' addies to spam "only members can post" lists.
>
> Not necessarily. Spam viruses would then start collecting people's
> private keys.
Theoretically possible, but at least it would significantly raise the
bar. Also, I would suppose that the people who use digsigs (at least
with the current level of difficulty) are mostly clueful enough to
avoid most viruses! B-)
It also supposes that the private keys aren't protected with a passphrase.
The applications I use which use a pp key pair insist on a pass phrase.
Such protection will make bothering to collect private keys quite a bit
less interesting.
Dave Morris