[WikiEN-l] Encrypted challenge-responses for PGP/GPG key users

[Avi]

On 5/11/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com


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From: "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at 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

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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

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