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| Alan Connor 2006-11-23, 7:33 am |
| On comp.unix.shell, in <3v-dnZsvp_Xrj_jYRVnzvQ@telenor.com>, "Solbu" wrote:
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GPG sig garbage deleted.
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> Bo Yang sent the following transmission through subspace:
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> Let me be the first to encurage you to use gpg.
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> I use gpg in all my messages in order to proove that I was the
> one writing the message and not someone pretending to be me.
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> If people have problems with gpg signatures, then let them
> ignore it.
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> You are not the only one that use gpg. :-)=
GPGS-sgs/keys mean _nothing_ unless they are carefully
investigated.
By someone who knows what they are doing.
Anyone with a _little_ bit of knowledge in this area can whip up
20 keypairs and have them sign each other in no time at all, and
distribute all of them.
Your sig proves only that this post came from the same person who
used the sig the last time it appeared somewhere. (Although I
suppose it is possible to pass the entire keypair on to someone
else, so even that isn't true.)
It doesn't identify you. It doesn't prove that you are
trustworthy, and it doesn't prevent you from using other
psuedo-identities, even those with their own GPG sigs.
Except that it doesn't really prove _anything_, because almost no
one uses the software necessary to even perform even the useless
basic checks on the sig.
GPG sigs are for _one_on_one_ communications of an important and
private nature, and any such communications must be encryptedas
well as signed. Duh.
All you are doing is cluttering your article with useless garbage
that makes me wonder just what you are trying to hide with this
charade. Why do you feel the need to pretend that you are more
trustworthy than the other 99.999% of people on the Usenet who
don't use GPG sigs.
I mean, you _know_ that almost no one is going to make even the
most basic tests on it.
As far as most of us know it is a complete fake, just cut and
pasted onto the body or your post.
And I'm going to killfile you if you don't get rid of it.
Not just for unnecessarily cluttering up your posts, but because
I'll figure you just about _have_ to be a troll's (or worse)
sockpuppet.
Alan
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http://home.earthlink.net/~alanconnor/
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| Peter J Ross 2006-11-23, 7:33 am |
| On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:03:56 GMT, Alan Connor <i3x9mdw@j9n35c.invalid>
wrote in news.admin.net-abuse.usenet:
> On comp.unix.shell, in <3v-dnZsvp_Xrj_jYRVnzvQ@telenor.com>, "Solbu"
> wrote:
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> GPG sig garbage deleted.
"User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Debian)"
http://www.slrn.org/manual/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.48
"6.48 hide_pgpsignature
Type: integer
Default: 0
If non-zero, PGP signatures in articles will not be displayed. The
setting of this variable can be changed using toggle_pgpsignature
(default binding: `]') while slrn is running."
$ echo "set hide_pgpsignature 1" >> $SLRNHOME/.slrnrc
HTH.
PJR :-)
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