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Re: Digitally Signed Email
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:49:31 GMT
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mattdm@!StopSpammers!mattdm.org
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Neb Okla <n_okla@hotmail.com> wrote:
This is just the kind of email spoofing that makes digital signatures a good
idea.

Or simply SPF. <http://spf.pobox.com/>

No encryption needed, and it happens automagically behind the scenes.


Nowadays about 95% of email clients across a variety of OS's support S/MIME
digital signatures.  Verisign sells them for a yearly fee - but there are at
least two providers that give them away for personal use.

Or, GPG signatures are *entirely* free. Any decent mail client should
support that.

--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrnc385ha.8ka.....bu.edu... (...) good (...) It's a little silly to say "Simply have all users convince their ISP to change their email infrastructure". I'll (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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This is just the kind of email spoofing that makes digital signatures a good idea. Nowadays about 95% of email clients across a variety of OS's support S/MIME digital signatures. Verisign sells them for a yearly fee - but there are at least two (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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