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   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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