OT: Email signing

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 1/31/06, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:
>
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >
> > A follow up question which I haven't yet understood from Googling,  what
> > happens when my GPG signed email gets sent to my prof. who used Outlook?
>
> He'll see a message, either with an inline PGP signature, or an
> attachment (depending on your client configuration), but won't have any
> indication that the signature is valid.  It's just some extra data in
> the message.  He'd have to install a PGP plugin for Outlook, and get
> your key's fingerprint from you in order to validate signed messages.
>
> This is why I advocate SMIME: more people already have the software to
> validate your messages.
>
>
> Ok. What is your understanding and response to this article I got to from
wikipedia.org: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/03/23.html#a952
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