full-disclosure - The worm author finally revealed!

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Message-ID: <20030131212529.GH6545@phobos.fs.tum.de>
From: Simon.Richter at hogyros.de (Simon Richter)
Subject: The worm author finally revealed!

Henrik,

> I guess many people also thinks that having a PGP signature on mails
> make them - true (while paranoid people would actually verify the 
> signatures)

No, PGP signatures help me establish trust to individuals by allowing me
to connect messages by the same individual to each other and then decide
whether I trust that person. That a key also has a more-or-less
pronounceable name embedded simply helps my brain to remember which
individual was just talking.

> even IF the PGP signature verifies clean the content might be
> fake, or a joke in this case

Erm, the contents may be fake, but this comes seldom from someone who
you already trust through what he/she said before. Of course, this
system is subject to social engineering, but I couldn't think of a
better system.

   Simon

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