RE: pgp signing in van

<l.wood@surrey.ac.uk> Mon, 09 September 2013 04:33 UTC

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From: l.wood@surrey.ac.uk
To: Ted.Lemon@nominum.com, mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 05:28:55 +0100
Subject: RE: pgp signing in van
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There is no upside.

By signing your mail you lose plausible deniability, remove legal doubt as to what you said...

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/


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From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Ted Lemon [Ted.Lemon@nominum.com]
Sent: 08 September 2013 22:50
To: Michael Richardson
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Subject: Re: pgp signing in van

On Sep 8, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> To all the people who posted to this thread about how they don't know what
> a PGP key signature means, and who did not PGP or S/MIME their email:

What's the upside to signing my email?   I know why I want everybody I know to sign my email, but what's the upside for me if I do it?   Until there's a clear win, it's not going to happen.