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Re: Email encryption and virus scanning
From: Frank Knobbe <fknobbe () knobbeits com>
Date: 30 May 2002 18:16:56 -0500
I don't care right now, but if you call me names in a signed email, and I slap a lawsuit on you, and you claim you never sent the email, then I care. Once you have been ordered by the court to produce the keys you signed the email with, the signature matters. Oh, oops.... now I opened the can of worms. Are signed emails more a liability then assurance? ;) Regards, Frank PS: I stand to what I said. After all, it's signed... :) On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 10:00, Frederick M Avolio wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On the Internet, an insignificant number of e-mail messages are encrypted. Of those that are, an insignificant number of those rely on signatures for anything. I am not saying it is right, but I am saying it is correct. No one (for some value of "no one") is sending and receiving email from the Wachovia Bank. So, back on target, for most of the Internet and for most organizations, the risk is close enough to zero to spend your time and effort on other defenses against more likely targets and let desktop AV, which people already should have in a Windows environment, worry about this. This is signed. Do you care? No. And most transactions are like this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2i iQA/AwUBPOphDgtFk8c1Ic6gEQJd/gCePl1dRqgObgF9kuaXnH7Jcp/ftr4AoLFX saUHhng/sJK4JFmiTeuBiDtL =lHDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Current thread:
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Dave Piscitello (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Frederick M Avolio (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Dave Piscitello (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Don Kendrick (May 22)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Dave Piscitello (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Frederick M Avolio (May 22)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Dave Piscitello (May 22)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Frederick M Avolio (May 22)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Frank Knobbe (May 31)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Dave Piscitello (May 22)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Frederick M Avolio (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Crispin Cowan (May 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning t (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Frederick M Avolio (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Antonomasia (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Dave Piscitello (May 22)
- RE: Email encryption and virus scanning Gautier . Rich (May 21)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning Adam Shostack (May 22)
- RE: Email encryption and virus scanning Hill, Keith (May 22)
- Re: Email encryption and virus scanning ark (May 23)