GPG testing...

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Mon Dec 30 09:05:58 EST 2002


> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, at 8:10am, travis at scootz.net wrote:
> [commentary about non-repudiation not being possible on the Internet]
>> This was EXACTLY my point as to why GPG/PGP for signing email is
>> currently
>> flawed the way it works now.
>
>   No, it is not flawed, either, anymore than a wrench is "flawed" because
> it
> makes a lousy screwdriver.  It is solving a different problem.  I repeat:
> PGP/GPG allow two parties who trust each other to exchange messages over
> an
> untrusted medium.  Nothing more, and nothing less.  If you assume it
> provides something else, the flaw is with your understanding, not with
> PGP/GPG.  :-)

Right, I ment using it for trying to prove you're not sending spam, or to
use it by just signing all your emails blindly and thinking that everybody
that recives it is going to trust it.



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