Klez worm and digital signinatures

Anthony E. Greene agreene@pobox.com
Tue May 14 16:18:01 2002


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On 13-May-2002/23:47 -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
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>In all seriousness, spoofing email from another person is 
>so trivially easy that I am surprised that more people do not 
>digitally sign their emails for that reason alone.

I demonstrated this to some friends on a private mailing list recently.
While they understood how easy it was, they still didn't see a need to
do anything differently.

Tony
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