----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
>The only reason I have begun signing my messages is not to prove that they are >mine, but to give some legal protection from viruses sending out emails in my >name. >If I can show some consistency that I always sign my messages, then I can >build a defense should I be hauled into court because someone else >masqueraded as me. That's absolute nonsense, if someone used your name that proves nothing, unless he used your connection your internet password your account. Because the court will ask your provider to check the connections you have made and if there is no prove, that your account was used, you can fake what ever name you want. Just to let you know any connection you do to any machine is logged by your provider (time + IP). So faking an emailname etc. won't help because they have to prove, that the you really did it and that's going to be impossible if you didn't do it. So the only think this signature does is to help your and maybe your friends to tell if it was really you :-) But the court wont give shit about it, even worse if you don't have a confirmation of an authorative, that this key belongs to you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
