>But your comparison is nothing but a straw man argument anyway. i dont think so.
>You're talking about attaching serious identification to a trivial message. christmas cards are about as trivial as this mailing list to me, and pgp is about as serious as dna/fingerprints in my book. >We're talking about attaching a medium-grade signature to normal messages. "medium-grade signature" to a "normal" message? what's a "medium-grade signature"? all this encryption we are talking about can be arbitrarily strong. what's a "normal" message? aren't all email messages "normal"? apologies, but i think you're full of straw. :-p IMHO, email + pgp is the same as paying my water bill + notary certificate. it might be fun, but it's silly. Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Soren Harward Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:50 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] Free Pizza At UUG Meeting On Thu 02 Dec 2004 at 20:28:50, Josh Coates said: > so i guess my point is: if you don't include a thumbprint and dna sample > when you send your personal christmas cards, why would you bother to do the > equivalent electronically? Unless you use gloves when handling the paper and a sponge to wet the envelope glue, then you do leave a thumbprint and a DNA sample. But your comparison is nothing but a straw man argument anyway. You're talking about attaching serious identification to a trivial message. We're talking about attaching a medium-grade signature to normal messages. -- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://theboard.byu.edu/ "Americans are always attempting to run away from conformity, but unfortunately they always start running in the same direction." -- Art Buchwald -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
