Re: quasi-deniable signing

"Hal Finney" <hal@finney.org> Sun, 14 April 2002 04:55 UTC

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From: Hal Finney <hal@finney.org>
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John Kane writes:
> Call me silly, but I don't think the OpenPGP protocol really
> needs either of these modes as part of the standard.

Why is that?  What do you think of the argument that in most cases
(aside from public postings), this is the kind of signature that you
would actually prefer?  It lets your recipient verify that you sent it,
but keeps you from being possibly hurt by having your signed message
shown to someone else.

Hal Finney