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 > > -- > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Michael Class E-Mail: michael_class@hp.com > E-Business Solutions Center Phone: +49 7031 14-3707 > EBSO-SERC Fax: +49 7031 14-4196 > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- ________________ _______________________________ / Nathan Dorfman V PGP: finger nathan@rtfm.net / / nathan@rtfm.net | http://www.rtfm.net / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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