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Re: "The OpenPGP mail and news header" extenssion



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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