Signed messages.

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Dec 11 12:33:11 GMT 2002


At 02:51 11/12/2002, you wrote:
>Some of the recent posts have digital signatures. Outlook flagged an
>error and disallowed opening mails as it recognised contents were
>changed enroute. I've seen replies by others to these mails. Surmise -
>mail is going thro' ok for others or email client does not support
>signature verification.
>
>I'm guessing this is due to mailscanner on my mailserver. Nothing else
>in between would parse or change contents of mails. Is this true? If so,
>would mailscanner usage not go down once digital signature use comes
>into force?
>
>Bye
>Mohan
>
>
>This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by
>MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses
>********************************************************************************************************************************************

Now there's a fine example of how to break a PGP signed mail by adding
stuff to it.
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Julian Field
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