-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 jakse escribió:
> And by the way... why do you all sign your messages here? I'm not sure i > have understood the signing idea completely? it is to make sure that the > reader knows the sender is the person he/she says he/she is!? right!? Sorry, I didn't fully answered your question... The purpose of signatures is to prove messages have not been tampered in transit from the sender to the recipient, but sometimes the signature can be broken without any malicious attempt to modify the message... It also should prove the message comes from the sender and not from somebody impersonating him/her, but all it can prove, is the sender has control of the key... I mean, if somebody steals my key, that somebody would be able to use it to sign messages, but it would not be me the one writing them... but as long as there are not legal or economical consequences, I'd consider signatures as a proof of the sender identity... For more details about what can a signature prove, ask Robert J. Hansen, he knows a lot more about that (well, a lot more about a lot of things related to GPG and signatures) than me. I just started using GPG on april 2008... Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJJbG1xAAoJEMV4f6PvczxA3VAH/A2AKEFfe++G3g2UWwaPQXhQ hxoj6echu/rWMy2XHuSZ/59ChLTnX+EUE6Ymtm21MmwXy80lCZGNFRGe+V9JA0mb k6gTuQwyoBOagwtoLvtMc5xsdEw8w5ALTEnXpvxADxP8CiVrAFCEN6kKA7NaV38G kqUI45/WpbpQyygtEHm4a78MIOfMw9/arTlH4CW0YdD+LdKjorgGJAFNHd3lBUq/ d9yZEaeq3aC+r0eSpeh6gSvt1vAa6XsGyy9jyyAPgen1JHY9EDa8595gzl8Zt1F1 qgzwHKkEKw+lAOO7krJhx0eAdgsYZ6ZoaV1AinDuozEtEMhYukaGJcspnVtR5Jo= =HlOY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users