Hi, Julian Elischer wrote on Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:01:41PM -0800: > Oh it was just a rant.. :-( > [..] > > > Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer? > > > getting really annoying.. > > > > Yeah, but what do you expect anyone to do about it? [..]
Many people are already using digital signatures. The occurence
of massively forged senders in e-mails by spammers and viruses
could be seen as motivation to establish a more widespread use
of digital signatures. Of course it doesn't help for e-mail
that we receive (unless we complain to the sender that one would
only accept signed e-mails, which is a bit tough), but at least
one could tell anyone, who complains that one has sent a virus, to
check for the signature.
Just a thought,
Daniel
P.S.: If your MUA complains about my signature, be sure to import the
CA certificates from http://ca.in.tum.de/, just because it's not
in the mozilla default root-ca set, it is not a less
trustworthy CA.
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