[PLUG] what is the point of PGP-signed emails?

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Sun Dec 7 10:43:02 UTC 2003


So what's the point, realio and trulio, of using PGP in email? I think 
it's a geek affectation. Anyone can generate a key. Anyone can paste a 
bunch of stuff in a message that looks like a key. If someone like 
David Mandel posted a message here that said "No more PLUG. I'm sick of 
it. We're pulling the PLUG hahahahaaa", it wouldn't matter if it were 
PGP-signed or not- no one would take such a message at face value. We 
would pick up and the phone and go "Yo, David, WTF?" 

So, aside from generating endless flame wars over how mail clients 
display a PGP sig, I just don't see the point.

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