Re: Email encryption and virus scanning

[Frederick M Avolio <fred () avolio com>]

You know... there is another question to be asked (and we know the answer 
to this one also):

If you do use encrypted e-mail, do you really (no, really) use authentication?

The question needs to be massaged, but I think everyone gets the idea. 
What, ho! Authentication! Integrity checking!! But if Dave sends me an 
email I am more likely to trust the context of the e-mail (does this sound 
like Dave's normal eloquent prose?) than if the signature checks (something 
must have broken the email as it was processed).

A friend automatically sends a digital signature with every message. So do 
some people on this list. My mail user agent, in that case, does not 
automatically check. Rather it allows me to if I want. I (almost) never bother.

Fred
Avolio Consulting, Inc.
16228 Frederick Road, PO Box 609, Lisbon, MD 21765, US
+1 410-309-6910 (voice) +1 410-309-6911 (fax)
http://www.avolio.com/

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