can you deny you sent a signed e-mail?

[Thomas Sjögren]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:22:02AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> But what about the inverse question: can you deny that you sent an
> e-mail which has been signed using you secret key?  

Sure you can, but who would believe you?
If you send a signed mail that you dont want to be blamed for later
(sending company info to a competitor for example), revoke you key and
tell everyone that someone broke into your machine.

/Thomas
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