Multiple signing - is this a common desire? (was Re: Signing MS-Excel spread sheets)

Kiefer, Sascha sk at intertivity.com
Mon Sep 5 19:15:47 CEST 2005


Well, i do not know about files, but our product signs mails using 
multiple-signatures (at least two signatures are required before a mail
leaves the system).
So i think it is NOT a bad feature.

Regards,
Sascha

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org 
> [mailto:gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Fitzner
> Sent: Montag, 5. September 2005 01:21
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Multiple signing - is this a common desire? (was Re: 
> Signing MS-Excel spread sheets)
> 
> 
> 
> Berend Tober wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, I've looked at WinPT and GPGee and one other GUI wrapper 
> > around gnupg, but they all of course are victims of this MS Excel 
> > "feature", and furthermore none of them satisfy my other need to be 
> > able to support multiple persons signing any given document
> 
> 
> When I started with GPGee I debated the idea of handling 
> multiple-signatures.  I decided not to deal with the added 
> complexity because I didn't think it was a much called-for feature.
> 
> If this is something that people would want to do more often 
> in the real world, I'll happily add this feature.
> 
> I can even drop in something like "Set target file read-only 
> after operation" - well, if I can figure out a shorter 
> description to use for it.
> 
> Anyway, is multiple-key signing more common than I gave it credit for?
> 
> 	Kurt.
> 
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