<div><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Not to be a nay-sayer, but I think this is pretty much deprecated.</font></font></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steve VanSlyck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.vanslyck@spamcop.net">s.vanslyck@spamcop.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Well I heard the most popular passwords are "123456" and "password," in<br>that order, and since 250 million people can't be wrong I think it's<br>
probably best if I just use those for my encryption keys.<br><br>On that note, thanks to everyone for updating my wetware on this.<br>
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<div class="im">Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:55:58 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [colug-432] PGP Signing Party<br><br></div>
<div class="im">> Yeah, I don't think the drivers license analogy does it justice. It's more<br>> like a credit card. Any ATM that trusts the STAR network, will trust a key<br></div>
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