| From: | "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | ADMIN: PGP Most Likely Unusable on LISTSERV |
| Date: | Thu, 7 Apr 1994 00:00:38 -0500 |
repeated problems with the signature not matching lead me to the writers
of LISTSERV to find out what the problem was. This is what I got.
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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 15:27:50 +0200
From: name removed as this is forwarded without permission
Subject: Re: PGP
Messages get sent through gateways that may make all sorts of minor
transformations to the message text. It's just not realistic to implement
a digital signature technique that does not at least ignore added/removed
white space.
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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 09:17:33 PDT
From: name removed as this is forwarded without permission
To: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: PGP
Well, your system sends 'ASCII', while LISTSERV uses 'EBCDIC',
and some users translate the received-text back to 'ASCII'.
That's *TWO* translations, with a large leap-of-faith that
the two translations are 1-to-1.
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Because of this, I'm afraid that I cannot reliably rely on PGP to
authenticate my postings, thus I'm not going to waste bandwidth with a
lot of noise.
In the future, if an ADMIN message seems suspect, contact me direct and I
will verify if I sent it.
I apologize for the hassles.
____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu
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