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Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Mon Jul 15 12:12:13 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:12:16 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <a05111b07b95244caa0e9@[10.0.1.9]>; from Brad Knowles on Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:35:01PM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> No. It is precisely the public e-mail messages which should
> always be signed, since they are the ones likely to reach the largest
> audience, and the ones that are likely to have the biggest negative
> impact if they are successfully spoofed.
what is amazing is that if this was really that important.. how is
it that mankind has gotten this far without the need of
authenticating every piece of communication.
but what this all has to do with nanog, i don't understand at all.
