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Re: [LUG] Online verification of signed emails

 

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:07:14PM +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Henry Bremridge wrote:
> >Good point. It is just that quite a few people keep coming back to me
> >with something along the lines of "what is this file *.asc on your
> >email". What I was looking for was a "reputable" site that people could 
> >
> >  
> Its slightly more difficult with the .asc file. With in line pgp you can 
> just cut and paste the entire block from -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED 
> MESSAGE----- to  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> but with a detached ASC file you would need to copy the raw email to the 
> server some how, prehapse you can save it as a .eml file and let the 
> server extract the .asc and process the entire file. None of which is 
> particular difficult just requires a bit of time to do.

I think this is how outlook receives the email. Which means that the only way of 
doing it
would be sending files and the GPG signature...

Not as neat.

> >b) Confirm the validity of the email
> >
> >Programming my own webpage is a "bit" beyond my skills... :) but I need
> >to do something. Will think about it a bit more.
> >
> >  
> I'm willing to give things a go but a bit short of time at the moment. I 
> might have a quick look at this its an interesting idea and I can see 
> the benefits for people stuck with various propriety email systems etc. 
> If the server had an SSL certificate then this should increase the trust 
> level.
> 
Just out of interest is there an open source "screaming" package, that
allows you to scream extreme annoyance into the ether and come back a
calm rational human being.... (Having some problems this morning, partly
on this issue: now I have to make sure my GPG signed files are readable
by PGP. Should be easy but I doubt it)

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