Email security issues

Stephen Sprunk stephen at sprunk.org
Mon Nov 10 20:16:35 UTC 2003


Thus spake "Brian Bruns" <bruns at 2mbit.com>
> This is one of those times where either PGP/GPG or these digital ID things
> in Outlook/Outlook Express would come in handy.  Not that I would expect
> normal users to bother to check to see if the sig is legit or not,
> considering these are the same people who seem to have no problem opening
a
> zip file and running an exe in it (ala MiMail).

Some MUAs automatically verify signatures before allowing the user to view
the message...

S

Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking




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