🚀 go-pugleaf

uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal,35-016,8621267,) writes:
> pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger):
> >>Why does PGP has those ugly lines "----BEGIN PGP...."
> >>and so on? PGP-2.1 is much better than PGP-2.0. Let's
> >>make it really good now -  GET RID OF THOSE BETRAYING
> >>TAGS! NOW!
> 
> > I don't think there is any point in stripping them, since it adds 
> > no security for you and will make the program a lot more 
> > inconvenient to use. 
> 
> I do, since it can increase security via making it "unprovable" 
> that the message is encrypted/created my PGP. Yes, this will 
> prohibit one from simply piping the whole message through PGP and 
> getting plaintext. Well, it depends on which concern is bigger - to
> have to strip head/tail off the arriving e-mail,  or fear to get 
> caught with using "guerilla" PGP... (:-)

increase security? not if you're using PGP to sign your public
posts. all anyone who wants to prove you're using PGP has to do
is

 a) add their own begin/end lines like anyone else
 b) run it through PGP with your public key. if PGP correctly verifies
	your message then there's no way you can deny it. that's
	the whole point of digital signatures.

if they want to get you they'll do it with or without the begin/end
lines. anything the average reader can verify the Feds can verify.
by taking out the taglines you're just adding an extra step.

jason

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