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Well, eventually I think that for any important messages (involving 
contractual or monetary issues) that people will just start using PGP.
If I add my PGP signature at the bottom there is no way anyone can 
reasonably fake it. Yes, useing a multiple bank of Crays you could 
eventually crack the code. The cost of the CPU time would probably be 
more than what you'd want to pay.
I think it's just a matter of time before mailers have integrated PGP 
(for the initiated thats Pretty Good Privacy). I don't see the host 
systems being modified to prevent spoofing. My particular mailer 
authenticates the host sending the message (i.e if it says FROM 
netcom.com then it asks the server who it is and compares.

The real issue here is that we ALL need to be aware of how easy it is to 
spoof an address and that we should keep that in mind when an "abnormal" 
message comes across.

Safe Diving
r.b.

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