why bother signing? (was Re: What email encryption is actually in use?)

[Ben Laurie]

Ben Laurie wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:07:50PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> 
>>At 04:45 PM 10/3/02 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
>>
>>>   --
>>>James A. Donald wrote:
>>>
>>>>>If we had client side encryption that "just works" we would
>>>>>be seeing a few more signed messages on this list,
>>>>
>>>Ben Laurie wrote:
>>>
>>>>Why would I want to sign a message to this list?
>>>
>>>Then all the people who read this list, were they to receive a
>>>communication from you, they would know it was the same Ben
>>>Laurie who posts to this list.
>>
>>But Ben is not spoofed here!  
> 
> 
> 
> He is now.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben.

I will confirm this as a (detectable) spoof :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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