each recipient chooses mailserver to subscribe whose sig
you trust ....i.e. a distributed, heteroegenous system.
for exampl,e i dont really care about windows viruses in my mail since
i read mail on a unix system, so i would subscribe to a listserver
that signed windows executables and visual basic attacments as
ok....:-)
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Moore typed:
>>> second, if someone must send an executable attachment , then we have a
>>> signing server that signs the attachment as trustworthy
>>
>>and how, and using what criteria, would the signing server evaluate
>>the trustworthiness of the attachment?
>>
>>e.g. I might consider an attachment that installed NetBSD on top
>>of an existing Windows system to be absolutely trustworthy
>>(so long as it did it's job well) and performing a valuable community
>>service, but others might not agree...
>>(they might insist that Linux be installed instead.)
>>
>>Keith
cheers
jon
