[50005] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PGP: learn it, use it, love it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Mon Jul 15 15:58:10 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:55:50 -0700
From: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:43:12PM -0400, bradley@dunn.org said:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Sure there are. Non-repudiation is not always a good thing. Do you get ev=
ery
> physical document you write notarized? If you are sued and email is
No, but I use an envelope and a signature on every piece of snail mail I se=
nd
that I author myself. (Not that there are that many nowadays.)
> submitted as evidence by the plaintiff would you rather the mail be signed
> or unsigned?
I stand behind what I write. If I am sued, I doubt that anything I wrote in
email would be to blame. In such a scenario (which, I might add, is entirely
hypothetical), the existence or lack of a PGP signature would hardly be the
problem. The actions that prompted the lawsuit would, and that is a whole
other kettle of fish altogether.
This is now so far off-topic I can't even _see_ the NANOG charter. Final
post by me. I did enjoy reading the various opinions submitted, but I hold
little hope that any arguments given, no matter their merit, will prompt any
change in the same.
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-=3D Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =3D-
GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527
illum oportet crescere me autem minui
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Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD)
iD8DBQE9MyjGWaB7jFU39ScRAkwuAKDEr+JeqqHax6BISfuFW7M5AQKxugCgnXlk
NKnd+tlmxsgIpxLslr/8Pvo=
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