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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Sunday, August 22, 2004 4:27:05 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Sunday, March 14, 2004 5:51:05 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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-Well, why Sign Email, Encrypt [Email] and worry about the entire [PKI] thing in the first place.
+Well, why Sign Email, Encrypt [Email] and worry about the entire PublicKeyInfrastructure (
[PKI])
thing in the first place.
!Verifying Remote Users
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? Using [GPG] and having a PublicKey in the WebOfTrust is now a prerequsite to becoming a [Debian] developer.
