easy way to confirm email validity

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I cannot "force" my recipients to install any PGP software so I was thinking
about creating signature verification form on my website. If someone wanted
to check if the email is really from me, he/she could paste the signed email
part on the form, then the server-side script would verify that.

I'm quite new to PGP, so correct me if I'm wrong and don't laugh too much :)
; would this be achievable?
I know I'd need to have my public key accessible to the validation script.


While writting this response I've actually stumbled across a page that I
think does what I need (http://www.sin-online.nl/ds/)

Actual coding of the script should be v.easy, I'm just not sure if the
concept is correct.


Thanx in advance
Peter




Robert J. Hansen-3 wrote:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA256
> 
>> I'm looking at easy way for my email recipients to validate that  
>> email sent
>> from me is actually from me.
> 
> The obvious way is to suggest they use an OpenPGP application, such  
> as GnuPG or PGP, to verify your signature.
> 
>> Is there some secure provider of such service?
> 
> It all depends on whom you're willing to trust, and how much you're  
> willing to trust them.
> 
>> Are there maybe better ways to do it?
> 
> If they need to validate your email, OpenPGP is one of the best ways  
> to do it.  S/MIME would also work well for the task.
> 
> (Given that this is the GnuPG-Users mailing list, any further  
> comments I make on this will be GnuPG only.  However, honesty  
> required that I point out alternatives.)
> 
> 
> 
> - --
> Robert J. Hansen <rjh at sixdemonbag.org>
> 
> "Most people are never thought about after they're gone.  'I wonder
> where Rob got the plutonium?' is better than most get." -- Phil Munson
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> qk/5a5640xbybW4EjobzK0l8PTzV/hstEmzWMhNWnr+c9R0FcLLP
> =1MeM
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