[colug-432] PGP Signing Party

[Angelo McComis]

Along the 123456 and "password" thing, I look at it this way.  If someone
really has it in for me enough that they want to forge an email from me and
send a hate-mail, all I have to do is tell them it's bogus, and if in doubt,
pick up the phone and call me.

There's enough hints (writing style, time of day, host headers if you know
how to read them), that without encryption and without signing a key, I can
still validate if I sent the email or not, and prove it reasonably well.

Not to be a nay-sayer, but I think this is pretty much deprecated.


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>wrote:

> Well I heard the most popular passwords are "123456" and "password," in
> that order, and since 250 million people can't be wrong I think it's
> probably best if I just use those for my encryption keys.
>
> On that note, thanks to everyone for updating my wetware on this.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott McCarty <scott.mccarty at gmail.com>
> To: Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx <colug-432 at colug.net>
>  Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:55:58 -0500
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] PGP Signing Party
>
> > Yeah, I don't think the drivers license analogy does it justice. It's
> more
> > like a credit card. Any ATM that trusts the STAR network, will trust a
> key
>  > bank debit card.****
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