I think this is probably beginning to get off-topic, but
At 12:45 2/7/2002, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>>1. The software industry has already devised mechanisms to protect
>>against e-mail forgery, e.g. private-public key encryption.
>
>And nobody uses them because they're too complex.
I think fewer people use them than should not because they are too complex
but because a) not enough people know about them and b) too many of the
people who know about them believe them to be a lot more complex than they are.
A few messages ago you suggested that some companies might introduce 'no
Unicode' policies in order to protect against spoofing (despite that fact
that many alternative character encodings would leave them equally
vulnerable). I think it is far more likely that companies would introduce
compulsory e-mail encryption and signing.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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