-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 December 2003 05:15 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Pipe dream as that would be very non-standard AFAIK. The IRC protocol doesn't support registered nicknames at all. NickServ itself is non-standard, so there's no standards to break. > > Lets go back to your suggestion of GPG-signed mail for a moment. > That still doesn't provide much help. I can easily generate a GPG key > with your name and email address on them, and unless you have an > existing key that is on the web-of-trust, I can't prove that the key is > actually yours. In which case, one would need to establish that they are actually talking with the person who is to give the key and be sure that it is not someone else they are talking with. I don't see how this is any less an issue with sending new devs passwords, anyway... - -- Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
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