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Signed Usenet
June 03rd, 2023
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Just had to smile about this … 

Cannot unread it ;)


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Dan wrote in eternal-september.newusers:
>On 2023-06-02, Adam wrote:

>>No Usenet user has the ability nor desire to check a PGP signature.
>>There's no central repository for public keys, and no one seeing a
>>purported public key will know if it's valid without checking.

>Huh, I have the ability to validate PGP signatures here in slrn.
>Granted, few people actually sign things.

You'll have to explain how that works on Usenet, given that you won't
know where the repository is.

Also, let's say you performed the validation. It fails. How do you
unread the article?