From: "Martin J. Brown, Jr." Date: 2002-11-06T09:51:24+09:00 Subject: Re: PGP on the list (was: Re: Matz Roundtable Summary) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:37:46 +0900 Pat Eyler wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Gavin Sinclair wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul Duncan" > > > > [original text not included for obvious, and pertinent, reasons] > > > > Fair enough that signing messages is something you believe in, but there is no > > good reason to sign messages to a public list. It's a contradiction. > > Umm, I don't see how it is a contradiction to sign (not > encrypt) messages. It gives us some level of authentication that Paul is > actually the one who sent the message. I heartily agree that it's about authentication, not contradiction. And that Paul Duncan had it right when he said: "Signing messages is something I believe in and would like to encourage." More signing (and encryption) is a good thing. - -- - Martin J. Brown, Jr. - - mjbjr@beaudesign.com - Public PGP Key ID: 0xDB184F7B keyserver: http://certserver.pgp.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yGeIsp7dytsYT3sRAgCiAJ4nkS2rjQHOFZUbX1+NNBqPjkJD1QCfW425 XiNryVCCP8BdRfPkjzNuwnk= =MDdi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----