In
<f5833273385bb34f99288b3648c4f06f19c9a7d...@exch-c2.corp.cloudmark.com>,
on 02/10/2012
   at 09:21 AM, "Murray S. Kucherawy" <[email protected]> said:

>S/MIME and PGP also allow you to sign the From: field of a message,
>but they make no statement about whether what got signed is true or
>not.

By "authenticate" and "sign" I was refering to authentication of
permission, not to authenticating that the message had not been
altered.

>I can't conceive of an Internet-based technology that can confirm
>intent or legitimacy of the signer/author/whatever.

How about a public key in a TXT RR?

-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     Atid/2        <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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