On 05/01/2020 11:21 a.m., Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins wrote:

 AA>> I haven't seen PGP signing used very much in the echos (or at
 AA>> least not in the few and active ones that I read). Where else
 AA>> do you see it used?

 WvV> Well lately I've seen it in this area and FIDOTEST.

I think that's about it!  LOL


 WvV> Outside of fidonet. I see it sometimes in newsgroups. And I
 WvV> know the (open)suse, software distribution system makes use of
 WvV> gpg keys to sign the distributed software.

According to the info at https://sks-keyservers.net/status/

     Max keys: 5964828

That's really not a whole lot in the internet collective.


 AA>> Yep. PGP signing would be a very convenient solution for
 AA>> signing agreements with on-sale dates that I have to
 AA>> acknowledge.

 WvV> I don't think "they" are going to trust it, untill there will
 WvV> be a government key signing authority, that can "properly"
 WvV> verify your identity.

Why not?  There is a vast pre-history of email exchange between me and
the vendor with many emails that include my customer/account number with
them. And my cheques even include the same customer/account number.  So,
they ought have great confidence that next time they send me something
to the same email address to sign, then my PGP-signed reply was done by me.

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