First of all, if the recipient is a newsgroup, why would that particular information need to be part of the signed information? If you post to a newsgroup a message that is only signed (as opposed to encrypted also),

From: ckey2@eng.ua.edu (Christopher R. Key) then you are obviously not worried about who reads it. The signature is only a method of proving that the important text (message) is unchanged and intact, and that the person who it is supposed to be from is the same who signed it. -------------- How about proving that you _weren't_ spamming? I.e., an enemy spots a message on a newsgroup from you with a signature, then duplicates it with header modifications on 500 newsgroups including news.admin.net-abuse.misc (to add insult to injury). Sorry if a bunch of other people have pointed this out by the time my message gets to toad.com, but... -Allen