About PGP Signing a File.

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 22:13 -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > That's why, when I see some people on some mailing list signing there 
> > mail using PGP I just wonder what they want to prove. We have no way to 
> > check the authority behind that key.
> 
> Authority has nothing to do with (unless you know the person).  But you
> can be sure that the person who claims he wrote an email yesterday is
> the same person who wrote the email today if the signature match.

Correction: *reasonably sure*

It's entirely possible that the guy's keys were stolen in the
intervening night.

> 
> -- 
> John L. Fjellstad
> web: http://www.fjellstad.org/          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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