Hi Shane!

Ignoring the "PGP versus X.509" question, does the membership want us to support signed e-mail at all? What about encrypted e-mail?

Of course I cannot speak for the membership, I can only do so for our LIR: Yes, signed email communication should be supported. In particular with the current situation that "from" and "to" lines are just "random text" in a "subset" of messages being sent on the net these days ;-) I think that encryption almost comes for free when we've got signatures, and should be offered as well, _but not be required_.

- -- Shane Kerr RIPE NCC

Wilfried (at.aconet)