[ncc-services-wg] Plan to discontinue email signing from certain addresses

Hi Alex,

> Signing emails from hostmaster at ripe.net, lir-help at ripe.net, new-lir at ripe.net and enum at ripe.net is one of the first pieces that we need to remove in order to phase out all the legacy software. While we realise that it is a best practice to sign such emails and are aware of the value it offers, we are planning to discontinue email signing from just these addresses starting 1 January 2014. It will allow us to phase out a part of our infrastructure that makes future migration a lot easier, while saving cost in the mean time. 

Bad idea. Come on, it can't be that difficult or expensive to add a digital signature to an e-mail. There are command line tools that can do that in a single line, and there is Python code that can do it in ±10! I don't know what software and language you are using, but if adding a PGP signature to outgoing messages is as hard as you describe then you're doing something horribly wrong...

- Sander