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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