On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Dave Aronson wrote: > On Wed February 25 2004 09:53, John Stracke wrote: > > > Dave Aronson wrote: > > > Requiring digsigs on a list would help cut down on spammers forging > > > list members' addies to spam "only members can post" lists. > > > > Not necessarily. Spam viruses would then start collecting people's > > private keys. > > Theoretically possible, but at least it would significantly raise the > bar. Also, I would suppose that the people who use digsigs (at least > with the current level of difficulty) are mostly clueful enough to > avoid most viruses! B-) It also supposes that the private keys aren't protected with a passphrase. The applications I use which use a pp key pair insist on a pass phrase. Such protection will make bothering to collect private keys quite a bit less interesting. Dave Morris