On 5/11/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:02:59 +1000 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Encrypted challenge-responses for PGP/GPG key users
Yes, you add 10 lines of spam to every message you send. What's the benefit? How does this help us? Sorry, but I've been meaning to ask the PGP'ers for a while now. Is there such a great risk that someone will impersonate you and we will fall for it? It seems to me that signing your message lets you prove that you indeed were the author of a message. But it doesn't help an unsuspecting person know that you weren't the author of a message.
Steve
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160
Firstly, for some of us, it is automatic. Secondly, it is a relatively harmless way to ensure that the public key is dissemenated; which in light of the desysoppings recently, is a good thing for identity verification purposes. Thirdly, Lastly, it's significantly LESS spam than the responses to this list that decide to quote entire threads and enough greater-than signs to drown a algebraic number theorist. Lastly, maybe we just like using geek-tech.
Avi