>I agree that it *is* an issue. Any modification of a message body will
>result in digital signatures becoming invalid. You will then have the
>situation where someone sends a signed message to the list and various
>email clients and/or stand-alone verifiers will be complaining that the
>sender's content has been altered. It might just be a change of
>punctuation, and email address, or the entire semantic content. Either
>way, once a digital signature is no longer valid, you cannot trust the
>content of the message.
So don't use in your message and it won't happen. It's not
a common string or anything (if we were substituting on "name" it would be
another story). There aren't random body substitutions happening, it only
happens in VERY specific instances which are easily avoided without any
extra effort on your part. No one would even know about them if I hadn't
left the footer at the bottom of messages in the beginning.
~Josh
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