Re: [LUG] HTML emails

[Grant Phillips-Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 Jun 2017 11:58, "Simon Avery" <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Brad,

That's a fair and reasonable point.Â

I'm not convinced it's necessary on a quiet, low traffic and fairly non-contentious public list like this, however. DKIM does provide reasonable sending proof (of host if not user) which I would think would be sufficient against most spoofing attempts.Â

I've seen footers used which show where the public key is available, which obviously has a lot less impact than attaching it to every message, and should anyone care to check, can be fetched.

That - for me - is the downfall of the "PGP/GPG for security" argument. So person A has attached their PGP/GPG public key to their email so we know it's them... but only if we check, and I don't know about anyone else on here, but I don't check. How is it protecting against identity fraud if nobody checks?

Grant.

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