Re: message signing

2002-04-02 Thread Martin Karlsson
* Peter T. Abplanalp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-01 12.14 -0700]: [...] right. that is what i thought. so the question remains, how does one develop a web of trust using good judgement while probably being unable to verify anyone's identity outside of long distance (email, phone, fax, etc)

message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Peter T. Abplanalp
hi all. just a quick question from a newbie. i usually sign all my emails but one of the lists i write to complains that it will not accept emails with attachments due to the fact that they don't want to spread msft viruses. now it is my understanding that when you sign an email you are

Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Dave Smith
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:09:38AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all. just a quick question from a newbie. i usually sign all my emails but one of the lists i write to complains that it will not accept emails with attachments due to the fact that they don't want to spread msft viruses.

Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Dave Smith said on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 05:33:36PM +0100: You could succumb to the non-standards-following world and use the pgp_create_traditional variable. There are also other ways of signing My two cents: Succumb. Inline sigs are annoying, and when you get a

Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread David T-G
Peter, et al -- ...and then Peter T. Abplanalp said... % % hi all. just a quick question from a newbie. i usually sign all my Welcome! % emails but one of the lists i write to complains that it will not accept % emails with attachments due to the fact that they don't want to spread Yeah,

Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Peter T. Abplanalp
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 05:33:36PM +0100, Dave Smith wrote: You could succumb to the non-standards-following world and use the pgp_create_traditional variable. There are also other ways of signing messages that have been used in the past, and many discussions have taken place here, and

Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Peter T. Abplanalp said on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:37:49AM -0700: just wondering why the non-standards-following option contains the word traditional. Because usage of PGP predates the establishment of standards. helpfull and it sort of relates to mutt...what is the

Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Peter T. Abplanalp
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:42:19PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: If you're using GnuPG, see the lsign option. ok. just to see how things work, i lsigned the key that i got from the keyserver when i opened the email i am responding to. presumably your key and email ;-). now when mutt invokes

OT: web of trust [was Re: message signing]

2002-04-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:00:39PM -0500, Peter T. Abplanalp wrote: ok. just to see how things work, i lsigned the key that i got from the keyserver when i opened the email i am responding to. presumably your key and email ;-). now when mutt invokes gpg, i get the same message of good

Re: message signing

2002-04-01 Thread Peter T. Abplanalp
Something isn't configured properly in your GnuPG. It sounds like it doesn't trust YOUR key. entirely possible but i think everything is set up correctly. here is what i get when i run a check on my key: pub 1024D/7D224574 created: 2002-01-09 expires: never trust: -/u sub