Propeller Efficiency

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:05:55 -0400, clint
wrote:

whats this ****?
Nomen Nescio explained on 4/19/2008 :
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It's a PGP signature. If you have a PGP decoder and download his
public key it's used to prove the message came from who it says it did
since nobody else's private key will encrypt to the appropriate string
above. Eliminates people forging posts since they either won't post
with a PGP key (rules the post in as a forgery if the real user always
posts a key), or the string won't validate against the real user's
public key.

On 2008-04-20, Peter Clark wrote:
It's a PGP signature. If you have a PGP decoder and download his
public key it's used to prove the message came from who it says it did
since nobody else's private key will encrypt to the appropriate string
above.

Except for one minor detail: since the guy hides behind an anonymizer,
there's no information gained from the fact that the message passes the
signature test, since all it proves is that the same anonymous coward posted
each one.
--
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (FRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC (ordered 17 March, delivery 2 June)

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:27:42 GMT, Jay Maynard
wrote:

On 2008-04-20, Peter Clark wrote:
It's a PGP signature. If you have a PGP decoder and download his
public key it's used to prove the message came from who it says it did
since nobody else's private key will encrypt to the appropriate string
above.

Except for one minor detail: since the guy hides behind an anonymizer,
there's no information gained from the fact that the message passes the
signature test, since all it proves is that the same anonymous coward posted
each one.

Yea, but it does prove it's the SAME person, not a different person
using the same public anonymizer to imitate them. That's what a PGP
sig is for. It's not for validating content of the posts, just the
origin.

On 2008-04-20, Peter Clark wrote:
Yea, but it does prove it's the SAME person, not a different person
using the same public anonymizer to imitate them. That's what a PGP
sig is for. It's not for validating content of the posts, just the
origin.

Without knowing who this person is, the fact that it's the same anonymous
coward is of vanishingly small usefulness. What difference does it make
who's saying the words when he's not standing behind them to begin with?
--
Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (FRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC (ordered 17 March, delivery 2 June)