EICS proposal

greg@turnstep.com greg@turnstep.com
Mon Feb 3 17:29:01 2003


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I've been wrestling around with the problem of representing external 
information inside of a signed email message, and would like 
feedback on a possible solution. The problem is that I can sign 
the content of this message, but cannot easily sign other information 
associated with it, such as the fact that I sent it to the gnupg-users 
list, the email address I sent it from, and the subject line I used. 
The solution I came up with is to use a standardized checksum and 
a small code within the signed message that a mail program can use to 
verify the external information. This message has such a code: if you 
generate a SHA1 checksum on the "From", "To", and "Subject" line of 
this email, it should match the code below. Full details:

http://www.gtsm.com/eics.html

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200302031117
EICS-H: def4da47787cc6aa42e41b5acabe151fc72b76dd

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