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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:35:14 -0400
From:      Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
To:        Michael Class <michael_class@hp.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Digitally Signed Messages (Re: HEADS UP: CAM cutover in two weeks.)
Message-ID:  <19980416093514.34787@rtfm.net>
In-Reply-To: <3535A5EB.E6B6E281@hp.com>; from Michael Class on Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 08:32:11AM %2B0200
References:  <05cb01bd6899$6e0135e0$c3e0d9cf@admin.westbend.net> <19980416133939.F1090@freebie.lemis.com> <3535A5EB.E6B6E281@hp.com>

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On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 08:32:11AM +0200, Michael Class wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 15 April 1998 at 13:08:01 -0500, Scot W. Hetzel wrote:
> > > Could you please not send Digitally Signed Messages to the list.  For those
> > > of us that have mail programs that support it, it is kind of annoying to
> > > have to go through 2 displays to just to read the message.
> > 
> > Can somebody give me more information on digital signatures?  What
> > software supports it?  Where can I find the standards definition?
> > 
> > Greg
> > --
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think I caused the discussion :-( Iam sorry, I just have the digitial
> signing (with X.509 Certificates, done by Netscape Communicator-Mailer)
> switched on as default, and forgot to switch it of for the message to
> this list. I apologize!
> 
> The reason why I have switched it on by default is that I want to get
> people in discussions about digital signing, so that more and more
> people will understand how that works in the future.
> 
> Btw: A digital signed message is just a MIME-Message with an attachment
> that has the Hash digital encrypted. Do you think that it is evil to use
> MIME-Messages on a mailinglist these days?

Does this mean that PGP is truly dead?

> Micha
> 
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