On Friday 10 November 2006 03:37, Michael Will wrote: > Completely usel.ess unless you plan to litigate and have to prove > authorship
Certainly for me being able to demonstrate authorship and/or modification of a message or file is useful in its own right, I don't understand why utility should be considered conditional upon legal action. E.g. LISTSERV used to (may still do) convert tabs to spaces in messages passing through it, so if someone creates a file or patch where tabs are significant and OpenPGP/MIME signs it and sends it to a LISTSERV list then the signature would fail and the recipients will know the something is wrong with it. Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/ Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
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