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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed
 by Satoshi's PGP key?
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name> wrot=
e:
> On Monday, 15 September 2014, at 5:10 pm, Thomas Zander wrote:
>> So for instance I start including a bitcoin public key in my email signa=
ture.
>> I don't sign the emails or anything like that, just to establish that ev=
eryone
>> has my public key many times in their email archives.
>> Then when I need to proof its me, I can provide a signature on the conte=
nt
>> that the requester wants me to sign.
>
> That would not work. You would need to sign your messages. If you were me=
rely attaching your public key to them, then the email server could have be=
en systematically replacing your public key with some other public key, and=
 then, when you would later try to provide a signature, your signature woul=
d not verify under the public key that everyone else had been seeing attach=
ed to your messages.

If the server could replace the public key, it could replace the
signature in all the same places.

Please, can this stuff move to another list? It's offtopic.