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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Another take on a new website..
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:31:56 -0400

on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:25:01PM -0400, Ilan Volow wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 11:25 AM, Steven Champeon wrote:
>
> >on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:24:02AM -0400, zman wrote:
> >>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Steven Champeon wrote:
> >>>Wouldn't be hard at all, actually. Completely, insanely,
> >>>ridiculously,
> >>>insecure, sure. But not hard to do. Via sendmail's aliases file:
> >>
> >>and then the SPAM starts going to that address...
> >
> >Exactly the problem Greg had with metababy.
> >
> >
>
> Couldn't you include some sort of public key thingy that verifies your
> identity as an attachment to the e-mail, and make sure on the server
> that info from e-mails is posted only if the e-mail has an attachment
> that checks out?

Sure, but then you've opened yourself up to DoS attack, as pgp/gpg
churns through signed messages.

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