Re: [Evolution] possibly stupid PGP/GPG display question

[Dave Allen <daveallen acm org>]

Other mailers (I'm thinking specifically of mutt right now) embed the
current time in the blurb saying that it was signed.  For instance,
something like:

"The following was PGP signed (current time: Fri Mar  2 12:51:56 2001)"

It seems to be a relatively simple solution, and pretty difficult to
forge, but most users don't really think to verify that it shows the
correct current time every single time they view a PGP signed message.
Perhaps if Evolution could recognize the above string if it was
already in the message beforehand and highlight it bright red or
display some kind of big red X icon or something?


On 2001-02-28, at 22:37:02+0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> As other people said, the plan is to have some sort of unforgeable
> indicator there saying whether it's validly signed or not.
>
> We're still not quite sure what it will be, so if people have ideas, let
> me know. :-)

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