[Enigmail] Expect signature header proposal

John W. Moore III jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Tue Oct 7 20:56:50 PDT 2008


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Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> screen that says "This message wasn't signed.  Do you really want to
> read it?", we're just going to train people to click "Yes" and ignore
> the warning altogether.

It would also be the Genesis of a 2 week thread and another Section in
the Manual discussing how to 'Disable' this useless Warning Screen.
Given the extremely small percentage of _all_ Email that is
cryptographically Signed the appearance of this 'Warning' on 99% of
received Email would quickly become extremely annoying.  S/MIME Digital
Signatures are seldom noticed unless One specifically checks to see if
they have been employed.  How many folks Open the header on every
received Email to see if an x.509 Signature has been affixed?

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Tuesday 07 Oct 2008, 23:53  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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