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Craig Jackson wrote:
Hi Craig!
| My own idea is that PGP/GPG could save us all from spam and SMTP | messages being clear text in one fell swoop. If everyone | encrypted their email using GPG/PGP and refused to accept | unencrypted email or mail not encrypted with their public key,
I agree, I use GPG (and before PGP) for a long time. And anything is quite easy if you have a mailer that supports signing and encrypting on the fly. Since I need a windows computer to access the internet, I came to Mozilla/Enigmail (since it exists on both os) and that is great and really easy. But even if I read mail in a textmode console window, I don't have any problem with signed mail at all (mutt).
I use some procmail filter to check, if a signed mail is really vaild (same with encrypted) and the senders key is in my own (list-)keyring. So all these mails won't be spam and need no further checking.
So IMHO signing can also be much useful on mailinglists too, since it can keep spammers out (hey, is there not some discussion that M$ likes to implement a senderid for the same purpose?).
I'm on some lists that require to send signed mails to it to prove that you are not a spammer. And when I remember even debian-devel-announce uses something like this.
Also recently I have some spam mails that have forged PGP/GPG Headers just to make them look like signed mail :-)
Cheers, Jan - -- GPG-KeyID: 82201FC4 Available at my public keyserver www.gpg-keyserver.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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