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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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