On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. > Most of us don't have the software to interpret them > and I, for one, don't give a rip if you are who you say > you are or not. We are exchanging info about DEbian/Linux, > NOT Swiss bank account numbers....
1) PGP signatures will not protect information from being read. PGP
signatures only verify who sent what.[1]
2) Unless you are running a seriously broken email client[2], PGP signing
of email adds only a few lines to an email.
3) Although you might not care who I am, I can imagine several possible
scenarios where it would be very beneficial[3] to be able to show that I am
in the habit of signing all of my outgoing email.
~ Jesse Meyer
[1] For privacy, you need the sensitive data PGP encrypted.
[2] I'll give you 3 guesses to which popular email software is seriously
broken to the point of ignoring the 6 year old RFC[4] that specifies the
PGP-mime type.
[3] "beneficial" being defined as "not having to share a cell with a
sexually deprived 300 redneck named Bubba who is no longer picky about
his partner's gender or consent."
[4] RFC 2015, published October 1996
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