-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- <flame="medium"> <!-- thin-skinned, insecure people don't read this. If you are taking medication or are a pregnant woman, consult your doctor before participating. --> I just got a letter back from majordomo@thumper.vmeng.com because my easy-PGP script had clearsigned my outgoing message to it, and majordomo didn't know what to do with the clearsigned message. I really don't see why programs like majordomo, UseNet moderation-bots, and most noticeably the PGP key distribution program are PGP-unaware. Okay, fine. Having waited for FIVE YEARS or however long it has been, you who are responsible for such handy dandy programs may now convincingly argue that you might as well wait for another few months to get PGPlib. But I sincerely hope that once PGPlib arrives we don't wait another five years before using it. (There is another argument that people sometimes make-- that it is too complicated to ensure pubkey<->True Name. SO WHAT! Pubkey<->True Name mapping is an advanced feature that depends upon the existence of some kind of public key infrastructure. Many people, myself included, wouldn't even USE pubkey<->True Name mapping if we had it! Just implement some basic privacy/authentication functions (trivial, using PGP 2.6 under Unix) and MitCH be damned! If we had started with the simple stuff five years ago we might HAVE a complete, secure infrastructure by now.) As an example of this sad state of affairs, no less of a cryptographic enthusiast than Robert Hettinga runs a mailing list (several actually) which breaks every PGP clear-signature that it encounters. Really pitiful, that even our own mailing lists are incompatible with PGP. Regards, Bryce PGP sig follows: [If you see garbage beyond this line, it means you are an anachronistic troglodyte. If you see a "PGP sig okay!" it means you are hi- tech. If you see "PGP sig not okay!" it means some mail-handling software between me and you is written/maintained by anachronistic troglodytes. :-)] </flame> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMd5l40jbHy8sKZitAQHZZAL7BUlItvGLZaTfBgTORFATkPM141R0P6Ux mOkQY3IG0/Vmf9nJEOg8bubdaCuYmuVCJhAek6boyQsmd6VTxqxVChniSWN1Uhth Ony1VSmufCdeqFbCGBqcAM5rfF8KM49h =9obd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----