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Author: Matt Alexander
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Subject: Digital Signing (Beat The Dead Horse) was Re: Free Software for m$
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tom Achtenberg wrote:

> I just do not see any value in the signing.

It is extremely easy to forge email. I doubt that there are many people
who would be interested in impersonating Derek, but signing gives
reasonable assurance that the email received is really from him.
~M


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