Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:57:13 +0200 From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> To: "Robert G. Waycott" <rgwaycott@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RC1 ... PGP signing ... Message-ID: <1065211033.8290.15.camel@cronos.home.vsb> In-Reply-To: <1065204942.43714.24.camel@localhost> References: <1065204942.43714.24.camel@localhost>
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On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:15, Robert G. Waycott wrote: > My friend just notified me that rc1 is out. I have been working the past > few days, so was not aware. Now, I wonder if I must reinstall the system > with an rc1 .iso, or if a CVSup, portupgrade/make world will do? > > Second question: why do many users on the list PGP sign messages? Is > there something nefarious out there about which I should worry? Is > PGP-signing really providing a great deal of security? > Although I don't sign my messages to mailing lists, PGP signatures are a good way to determine if a message really came from the person that the headers indicate. If you are really sure that a particular key belongs to someone, than you can rest assure that a message signed by that key came from the sender (unless he got his private key and passphrase stolen) *and* that the message arrived unchanged. You can do a lot of damage by either forging E-mails from someone, or modifying E-mails (I saw that kind of stuff in my college-days, some kids send offensive Emails to teachers from other kids addresses). No PGP signatures should solve this problem. One cautionary note, PGP/Mime signed mails are not displayed by Outlook at all (its MIME implementation is a complete mess). > Esse quam videri, > > --Bob. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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