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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Sunday, September 28, 2003 1:07:26 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Well, why Sign Email, Encrypt Email and worry about the entire [PKI] thing in the first place.
!Verifying Remote Users
-On [
Undernet] we have ScriptKiddies try and disrupt anything and everything they can. They have in the past forged emails from core developers with patches to be applied. If you contribute to FreeSoftware or the OpenSourceMovement
then you are likely to have to interact with developers at potentially very remote locations, are you going to phone them up after every email to make sure they sent it?
+On the
Undernet [IRC
] network
we have ScriptKiddies try and disrupt anything and everything they can. They have in the past forged emails from core developers with patches to be applied. If you contribute to FreeSoftware or the OpenSource movement
then you are likely to have to interact with developers at potentially very remote locations, are you going to phone them up after every email to make sure they sent it?
!Future Proofing
It takes time to build up a [PKI]. By getting your key signed today, and signing other peoples keys then when you need to send email to someone else in the world you will hopefully already have a trust path to them.
