Hello Curtis,
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:51:11 -0500 GMT your local time,
which was Wednesday, July 19, 2000, 6:51:11 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Curtis wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:42:13 +0100, John Sullivan wrote:
>>> Would you care to explain that. I use version 6.5.3 of PGP and I use
>>> S/MIME.
JS>> I don't doubt. As I said, I *could* have the wrong end of the stick
JS>> completely. (I am using 6.0, not 6.5, though. I don't know what effect
JS>> this might have on The Bat! though.)
> You're still using v1.42 beta19? I can understand the older
> version but why a beta of it? :-)
JS>> Your signing key (0xee079937 F548 15D2 2799 EC9A ACF2 B429 F017 7921
JS>> EE07 9937) is a DH/DSS one. Do you use the exactly the same key with
JS>> S/MIME?
> Yes.
JS>> Is that The Bat!'s implementation of S/MIME?
> Yes.
JS>> Do you have a certificate for that key from a well-known root CA?
> I'm not sure what you mean (spanking new to all this:-O)I got my
> certificate from Thawte.
JS>> If so, I thought The Bat! only supported S/MIME using its internal
JS>> crypto implementation. I thought that *that* only supported RSA keys.
JS>> And I thought (based on TBBETA posts) that they were only allowed for
JS>> S/MIME if a valid root-CA signed certificate was present.
> Well, PGP and S/MIME may be applied separately. When I apply the
> PGP signature, the plugin is used to do this.
JS>> Signature is algorithmically correct, but I don't know you and your
JS>> public key doesn't appear to be signed by anyone at all (let alone
JS>> anyone I trust), so I won't self-sign it just yet ;-)
> No, it hasn't been signed by anyone. You've hit on a point that
> has concerned me. Most people whom I've received public keys from have
> not had theirs signed by anyone.
Thats why they used to having signing parties in the past....
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