From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22681 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Once again: PGnus & PGP Date: 20 Apr 1999 19:58:45 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <19990411101448.A523@psyche.clear.net.nz> <871zhq5msx.fsf@psyche.evansnet> <87u2ul4o5e.fsf@psyche.evansnet> <19990412230326.A23570@diabolo.ndh.net> <87so9vf30e.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160557 30600 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:35:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA19241 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB04522; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:59:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:59:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05404 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:59:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from peorth.gweep.net (ratinox@adhara.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.116.158]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA19206 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:59:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by peorth.gweep.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) id TAA00868; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:58:45 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "20 Apr 1999 22:30:57 +0200" Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22681 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22681 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Hrvoje Niksic on Tue, 20 Apr 1999 | What is wrong about it (except for it not being supported by PGP | itself)? At least it guarantees you the ability to recover the whole | MIME message. The purpose of digital signatures is to validate that a message has been transmitted without modification. Many mail and news systems will append whitespace to messages. Some strip whitespace. To compensate, following the lead set by the PEM format standard, PGP marks signed areas with delimiters. Thus, if a message has whitespace appended or removed, it will not affect the signed area. X-Pgp removes those delimiters. If the message body is modified in transmission, the signed area will have changed. Correct reconstruction of the message cannot be guaranteed. If reconstruction cannot be guaranteed, validation of the signature cannot be, either. If the message's signature cannot be validated, then the signature is useless. X-Pgp is a 'standard'. It is a *BAD* standard. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v0.9.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE3HRS1gl+vIlSVSNkRAuIxAKDm24P+5p4ghvjyfJzOGCRmeQcW2gCfa2Mt LD4Dx+cKPt/U6rYRAEWrQdY= =AXgJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rat \ When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ returned to its special container and PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ kept under refrigeration.