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Peter J. Holzer hjp-python at hjp.at
Fri Sep 30 14:55:35 EDT 2022


On 2022-09-30 05:31:15 -0000, Jan van den Broek wrote:
> 2022-09-29, Mike Dewhirst <miked at dewhirst.com.au> schrieb:
> > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156)
> 
> Why?

Why not? Signing an email protects against impersonation and tampering.
While you may not be assured that my name is indeed "Peter J. Holzer",
you can be sure that all the messages signed with the same key came from
the same person and that they were not modified by somebody else (at
least not the signed part). I've been signing all my (private) mails for
25 years or so.

        hp

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| |   | hjp at hjp.at         |    -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing
__/   | http://www.hjp.at/ |       challenge!"
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