-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Aug 25, Mark Haney did say: > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:10, Beej-in-GA wrote: > > Why are some folks' posts only attachments of notepad text files and > > signature.asc files? Just curious. > These are ones signed with GPG signatures. These are the ones signed with "detached" gpg signatures surely you mean?? My message does not consist of an text/sig pair of attachments. Yet it too has an GPG signature embedded with the text in the actual message body. It also has an embedded instruction as to which pgp server my public key can be found. While I [obviously] prefer the embedded method over what I call a detached sig. Both are examples of using gpg (or pgp) And a good clue that the sender wants it to be possible to verify that was received was in fact exactly what he or she sent. And that he or she did actually send them. One reason I prefer to use the embedded ascii form is it made it easy for me to start the signing process from my editor instead of "having" to depend on my mail client for it. Why so many seam to prefer the detached signature method, I do not know??? - -- | ? ? | | -=- -=- I'm NOT clueless... | <?> <?> But I just don't know. | ^ Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | --- J(tWdy)P | <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx> | ? ? ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLsu1RZ/61mwhY94RAm8oAKCXjXF/hbkRjGh46XHTaeJP+3/4lwCcDV1p Dxrr52JTL2KimSqB69gxU30= =Um9w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
