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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Now Signing Messages
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:18:28
Message-Id: 443FF440.8020102@qrypto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Now Signing Messages by lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com
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4 lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com wrote:
5 > I did some homework, did some Google searches, and figured out how to sign my
6 > email with Kgpg. I configured KMail, during which I came to the conclusion
7 > that spamassassin needs to be left serverside - importing ~8,000 messages
8 > from GMail while spamassassin tried to scan them all was an absolute
9 > nightmare which ultimately involved emerge --unmerge spamassassin.
10 >
11 > Anyways, since it's totally impractical to try and get all of you people to a
12 > formal key signing, I'm hoping you'll take my word for this and trust that
13 > this key which I sign my message with now is THE key I intend to use for as
14 > long as I can get away with. Hopefully this will help with that total nut
15 > case who was impersonating my email!
16 >
17 > Just a follow-up on that guy. I think that he's a spammer, testing his
18 > capability at phishing by spoofing off of other people's domains and their
19 > email. My best guess is that he picked me as a target, since I am a rather
20 > salient participant in many mailing lists, just to make sure he could
21 > properly spoof off of other domains, thus allowing him to do more sinister
22 > things than try and make me to a double-take when I find something that looks
23 > like I emailed it to myself in my inbox!
24 >
25 > Thanks for your patience in this matter, and I hope that we can all continue
26 > to work towards a web where we don't need spamassassin or gpg. I know I am.
27 Hi,
28 Why not use a keyserver to keep your key, there are enough of them ;)
29 GnuPG can be setup to use one or more keyservers (same for Kmail,TB,Evo)
30 Plus configure it the auto-fetch new/unknown keys, then forget about it.
31 HTH.Rumen
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