-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/8/13 3:50 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > On Sep 8, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Michael Richardson > <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> To all the people who posted to this thread about how they don't >> know what a PGP key signature means, and who did not PGP or >> S/MIME their email: > > What's the upside to signing my email? I know why I want > everybody I know to sign my email, but what's the upside for me if > I do it? Until there's a clear win, it's not going to happen. There are two that I see: 1. Since it's quite easy to send faked messages (and I have seen that done on public lists in an effort to embarrass or impugn the sender), signing one's messages makes it clear that the message really came from you. 2. Signing one's messages is a way of advertising that one is capable of engaging in encrypted communication. (This might not be a welcome analogy, but it's kind of like open carry for encryption.) Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSLPhsAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pCJgP/Rx9sytAqZEB5+4o5dUKmz2q W54ZX0LRNPNLadAkp4tEPLyvejIK0RsQy6MEnX5rqFOF6Y8aJQqa/xxCpnXHptzZ c3U4nBlUM/aAFurmnEWPj6fHks2tBOSEADadHp97wit/kH8Cr4SNLfqqAGi65JNf 1mmYuL9v2Ktn4e+1kUv/F2W/rPZb+g15SV2RnpFhbr2j8/TJtqm5MvoBhrtATjBP rySxV0ERvoI2QIT6cMsl2WlZLN0w+kGFPuSaNkapIyIYc2AON258GdgjyP3Ff4mr QXxHmuLu5BROXwYDoQzLAYrkV0To+/EzVV55lJQAWe2l1MDuC1WzJXf/92RBSuRM xMolFrXcpdAQpqNIwXEF2p5SKNJIu8ksNAQwS9eUELB6PBhn87m+pszzKKAtT8d0 Q3jkJA96ZHvyf3dKyn76Ic7sxMJKQv7NbUnZEfZ41NyIWm3aur1kDrTXLYOx3Rf5 pL0k8dXa9RQJ96L8as4fBNGd+3bettiuy/x3PYPO8Gem2s0HZ5+ZyNnirsrJQtyx RmHbMh6zIUWlSXKkoKi8ojy97zpJZeVKRojuF+yHQQgRK2hnAOwU4A/zach/J1JP StrdXnRcrP+m3LtOpU1vqcj4JEky+q2Bu7EvGBYaG5I0MS5+vhcSL1zfiMPvpg9c 3zHQ34Z+10gTnbKyf+5Q =nKdo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----