I must use digital signature

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2020-01-14 10:02, Wade Smart wrote:
> I must use digital signatures

No -- your e-mail is already digitally signed (as is all e-mail sent 
through GMmail; take a peek at your headers).  What *should* happen is 
that this list, and others, should start weighting digital signatures -- 
or, more precisely, lack thereof for domains that have them -- far more 
heavily.  Personally, I think Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc., should get 
together and say that, as of 2/2/2022 (because why not?) they will stop 
accepting e-mail that doesn't have some form of signing -- DKIM is 
probably the best mechanism.  http://dkim.org/ for more info.  Would 
give everyone two years to get their ducks in a row.  And once 
*everyone* stopped accepting unsigned e-mail, spam would drop like a 
rock.  (Doesn't mean you wouldn't get commercial e-mail, but it would be 
"legit" e-mail that you'd be able to block if you didn't want, say, the 
latest sales stuff from Newegg, because spoofing domains wouldn't be a 
thing any more.)

It's honestly a mystery to me why this hasn't already happened.

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-Ken