Re: pgp, was Not just the '39 catalog, but all of 'em.
- From: "Soundhaspriority" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:46:14 -0400
<0junk4me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard, I figure anybody that savvy and diligent would figure it out
On 2009-06-11 rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx said:
>Mr. Gravereaux is posting "signed" messages (which ironically are
>supposed to be MORE secure). Alas, appropriate for important
>email, but pretentious and useless on Usenet. But some people
>would rather poke their RFC thumb in your eye than just post
>plain text messages like the rest of us.
>Mr. Gravereaux correctly observes that newsreaders should be
>displaying the (internally multi-part) message as plain text, but
>many (like MS Outlook Express) don't do that. But since no
>average people post signed messages to Usenet, it makes no
>practical difference to the overwhelming majority of us.
Agreed. I've seen some fidonet readers that would do that
over the years, and the clear sign is just supposed to
authenticate who sent it. The text in a public forum is
still supposed to be readable. tHere are diferent
applications of pgp and such techniques as well.
>OTOH, the only person I know who might benefit from real
>PGP secured message posting would be the Real Bob Morein
>to distinguish him from that pathetic poseur in OZ.
Again I would agree. Bob might want to look into clear
signed messages, and make his public key available to people
on request.
anyway. I would say my friends have solved the problem. You're one of them.
Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511
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