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

Not really sure what makes this function so hard to keep in place ?
Otrs can do this out of the box and that system isn't legacy and is also
free.
// Andreas

Den 2013-04-09 14:32 skrev Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl>:

>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
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