Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 12:15:29 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:10 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> Is it just me, or do others also think that a public email (even a
> >> signed one) would be almost the worst place to trust a fingerprint
> >> announcement?
> 
> Laszlo BERES:
> > If the mail is correctly signed then it's OK.
> 
> A message being correctly signed isn't quite the same thing as being
> able to verify that it's been produced by the person in question.

Signatures tell you that whoever produced them has the private key, the
rest is assumption.

poc




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