Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:57:13PM -0500, John Ruttenberg wrote: > 1. Licensed mail sender has private pgp/gpg key provided by Habeas and >uses it to sign outgoing mail. (Also adds haiku for legal purposes.) I think you've just outlined the Verisign method of "stamping out spam". At l

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread John Ruttenberg
Adam D. Lopresto: > The problem is that gpg/pgp aren't very well supported. Getting people to > add a few header lines is pretty easy (I've considered it a few times, but > never got around to it), but getting people to sign their mail is much > harder. After all, that's the reason we aren't all

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread Adam D. Lopresto
The problem is that gpg/pgp aren't very well supported. Getting people to add a few header lines is pretty easy (I've considered it a few times, but never got around to it), but getting people to sign their mail is much harder. After all, that's the reason we aren't all using pgp and gpg already.

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread John Ruttenberg
Mat Harris: > > this sounds like a heavily commercialized version of pgp/gpg. It would be > just as easy to adapt MTAs to filter spam based on pgp keys (i'm not > suggesting we do). > I was imagining it would just use pgp/gpg and not reinvent that wheel. The idea was just to have habeas actuall

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread Mat Harris
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:26:40 +, John Ruttenberg wrote: > I sent this to Habeas Technical Support. But I think I'll get a better > response on this mailing list. This seems like an obvious idea. There must > be something wrong with it. But what? > > Here is a technical suggestion.

[SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread John Ruttenberg
I sent this to Habeas Technical Support. But I think I'll get a better response on this mailing list. This seems like an obvious idea. There must be something wrong with it. But what? Here is a technical suggestion. I think your business plan works by using legal action against violat