-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi
On Thursday 30 January 2014 at 9:28:27 PM, in <mid:20140130212827.GA30954@leortable>, Leo Gaspard wrote: > About emails reused by different persons... AFAICT most > major email services never re-issue the same email > address twice. Which could be considered good practice. Yahoo does. Some of my old yahoo accounts now say this when I log in: "Your Yahoo account has been inactive for an extended period of time and is being recycled. If you need a new account, please sign up for a new one." Other, even older, yahoo accounts give "This ID is not yet taken. Are you trying to register for a new account?" > If one worries about an email agency stealing the email > addresses, well... A signature on an email UID means > "Yes, this key is used by the same person as the email > address". So signing it "automatically" would not > conflict with the meaning of the signature. Fair enough. > Yet if the > UID also includes a name, then it should be signed only > after appropriate verification of the owner. Makes sense to me. - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net War is a matter of vital importance to the State. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iPQEAQEKAF4FAlLrALlXFIAAAAAALgAgaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEJBMjM5QjQ2ODFGMUVGOTUxOEU2QkQ0NjQ0 N0VDQTAzAAoJEKipC46tDG5pOfsD/2s71tagOl3322f/WIbP5CaqwruiCtQO3B8f Sg3DuqmM8kNenFJgjbAq8PTf5FF4WXF/4xZasCvdPkMlgtFaCKcWgdEPo87cwBxY gEzjnZESkosq5m3vpD3PHxmeDzxP9QBp9ETuBNp745ZzcS8Oqiic3r6dfAxa5OyB PbF5ntLK =ODsN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users