[Enigmail] Expect signature header proposal

[John Clizbe]

Eitan Adler wrote:
> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> No: I have defined the problem as: "Enigmail doesn't give effective
>>> warnings in the absence of an *expected* signature."
>> 
>> And, as people have told you several times so far, there is no known way
>> to convey an expectation of signature. 
> A check box right under "allow remote images" part of the address book 
> entry?

<sighhhhhh>

Congratulations. You've created YAABH - Yet Another Address Book Hack. They show
up every now and then as "enhancements". They always have one little problem,
they require so much effort and coordination among all the different parts of
the Mozilla mail-news code that they cannot be extensions. They must be fully
integrated into the application. They also require that Enigmail be fully
absorbed into the core application.

YOU want this so much, your solution is to start coding and send the Mozilla
folks a patch or develop your _OWN_ extension.

However:
    Folks on the list have told you it won't work.
    Enigmail team members have told you it won't work.
    Enigmail's developer has told you it won't work.

Everyone has told you that your idea is unworkable, yet you refuse to listen or
accept the fact.

Thunderbird's source code is available to you. Enigmail's source code is
available to you. That's the beauty of OpenSource.

Start coding. Maybe it will help *you* at last realize why everyone else says
that this scheme won't work. No matter how you finagle a solution, it will not
do what you want it to.

You are of course free to continue being obtuse and ignore those telling you it
won't work, but you alone are championing this Crypto-Spruce Goose.

Come back when you've got an implementation of something that will turn years of
communications security theory on its head. You'll need to surprise us, 'cause
we won't be actively waiting for it.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
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A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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