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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