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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2004-07-04 10:23 am
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Pointless Geekery

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.
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[identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com 2004-07-04 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm reminded of the ads "Be the first of your friends to have a phone with video messaging!" Er, why exactly?
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[personal profile] drplokta 2004-07-04 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I already have a free certificate and sign all of my outgoing email. So it's not quite nobody you know...

[identity profile] odheirre.livejournal.com 2004-07-04 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
But how do we know that you are posting this?

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2004-07-04 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] aberbotimue.livejournal.com 2004-07-05 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
but we could, if we wanted to..

Its good to be geeky..
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