Hazards of encouraging forged dig sigs

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Wed Nov 30 22:51:08 PST 1994


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"L. McCarthy" wrote:

>Now that Eric has made it abundantly clear he envisions syntactic but not
>semantic checks of sigs, I am opposed to the proposition. I foresee a
>situation in which a large portion of the list traffic uses forged or
>meaningless signing-server-appended dig sigs.

Perhaps, though I doubt it. I still think that "incentivising" (I just love
this word) the use of crypto on this list will lead to better tools and
therefore to more people in the world at large using crypto. Since that is
what we all want, can't we at least give it a try? There is nothing to lose
and everything to gain.

- -- Lucky Green <shamrock at netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil
interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." <George
Washington>




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