Any way to get smaller key sizes?

Alaric Dailey alaricd at pengdows.com
Wed Sep 28 12:54:22 CEST 2005


Laurent Jumet wrote:
> Hello !
>
>     Is there a way to check the signature below with GnuPG?
>
>
>
> AD> This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format.
>
> AD> --===============1956155648==
> AD> Content-Type: multipart/signed;
> AD> protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1;
> AD> boundary="------------ms010301020309090200000803"
>
> AD> This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format.
>
> AD> --------------ms010301020309090200000803
> AD> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> AD> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
>
> AD> --------------ms010301020309090200000803
> AD> Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
> AD> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> AD> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
> AD> Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
<snip>
No, this is an S/MIME signature, basically SSL technology for emails. as 
it appears much cleaner in modern email clients than PGP.  But it 
appears MUCH cleaner than PGP, and and modern email clients validate the 
signatures automatically, and without additional software.  Also using 
an S/MIME to sign emails means that I can sign ALL my emails  and they 
won't scare the unwashed masses, not to mention I get the additional 
benefit of using the CA as a "Trusted Introducer".


For a basic rundown on S/MIME signatures checkout 
http://www.cacert.org/help.php?id=2


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