Pointless Geekery

[andrewducker]

Ok, so I got around to picking up a free certificate for my email. So now anything I send is digitally proven to have been sent by me (or someone who's had access to my email program. Or someone who know the password I used to log into Thawte and get them to issue me a certificate).

But nobody I know cares about certificates, digitally provable identities, etc. Which means that signing the emails is in fact completely pointless.

Oh well.

Comments

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the ads "Be the first of your friends to have a phone with video messaging!" Er, why exactly?

[drplokta]

Well, I already have a free certificate and sign all of my outgoing email. So it's not quite nobody you know...

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

But how do we know that you are posting this?

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I regularly speak to "you" on MSN only to find out that it's someone else.

Why would I trust your emails, signed or not?

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Good point :-)

I dont believe it's you either..

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

but we could, if we wanted to..

Its good to be geeky..