@Dietrich T. Schmitz * Your Linux Advocate
Encryption doesn't have anything to do with verifying the identity of another individual. It prevents a third party from viewing the email sent between two parties. If a spammer is sending me an email, I don't care if anyone else can intercept that email or not. It does nothing to resolve the issue of spam or phishing. GT2L's point about falsifying the identity portion of GPG is also valid. You set up your identity and GPG hashes a digital signature based on the information you gave it. Nothing more. There's a reason PGP is an abbreviation for Pretty Good Privacy, not Perfectly Great Privacy.
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