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Re: PGP: learn it, use it, love it

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Mon Jul 15 15:44:05 2002

From: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley@dunn.org>
To: "Scott Francis" <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:43:12 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Scott Francis wrote:
> There are a great many good reasons to do so, and no good
> reasons not to. Broken software and laziness don't count.

Sure there are. Non-repudiation is not always a good thing. Do you get every
physical document you write notarized? If you are sued and email is
submitted as evidence by the plaintiff would you rather the mail be signed
or unsigned?

Bradley


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