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Message-ID: <200403191942.i2JJgwWx012005@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Re: NEVER open attachments On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:27:53 EST, you said: > Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>, Nico Golde, Frank Knobbe, > et al have wonderful things to say and contribute great things to this list, > but i have never read anything they post because they post as attachments. PGP signed messages are not executable attachments. See the following RFCs: 1847 Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted. J. Galvin, S. Murphy, S. Crocker, N. Freed. October 1995. (Format: TXT=23679 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) 2015 MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). M. Elkins. October 1996. (Format: TXT=14223 bytes) (Updated by RFC3156) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) 2440 OpenPGP Message Format. J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, R. Thayer. November 1998. (Format: TXT=141371 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) 3156 MIME Security with OpenPGP. M. Elkins, D. Del Torto, R. Levien, T. Roessler. August 2001. (Format: TXT=26809 bytes) (Updates RFC2015) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1847.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2015.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3156.txt If anything, you should *encourage* the use of PGP or S/MIME to sign mail, because even if my machine gets whacked by a virus and starts spewing correctly signed mail, you will *know* it's my machine doing it and not some address-scraping virus on a machine in Zanzibar or someplace. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040319/b80bb38b/attachment.bin
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