Re: Pseudo-spoofing the Gov't

["Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>]

Michael Edward Marotta says:
> What happens when governments are online and someone pseudo-spoofs 
> the state legislature?  

It won't happen, since digital signatures in the future will make such
things impossible. In any case, even now most such instances are easy
to detect.

> The problem remains. Nothing on a computer can be trusted.
>  
> PGP?  Sorry, it's not for users.  I see these PGP Keys appended 
> to messages all the time.  Garbage characters.  I have no 
> intention of grabbing them, making them fields in a record or 
> records in a file or files in a database, on the unlikely chance 
> that someday I might want to send a secret message to someone. 

In that case, what the hell are you doing here on this list?

Perry