Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: public key cryptography to eliminate/detect forged messages Message-ID: <14536@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 16:53:09 GMT References: <1038@anise.acc.com> <89-221-0046@naggum.uu.no> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 8 If you added an authenticating signature ID to each message, you would need to modify the Cancel procedure to prompt the cancelling user for a password. It would be impractical to require a password for each posted article, so the poster's login password would have to be used instead. I think. -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET