Re: [Evolution] distinguishing a signature verification from html e-mail

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

There was a bug in bugzilla about having a keyboard shortcut for
signature verification....

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:52, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 16:48, Not Zed wrote:
> > > I guess it's not horrible having to click for a verification (although
> > > it may tend to make me not bother to verify, which kind of defeats the
> > > purpose of signing mail to some extent), but it sure would be a lot
> >
> > Well its so that it can't be faked visually with html mail etc.
>
> I'm reasonably sure you could do something like putting a thin colored
> bar down the left hand side of message content, leaving the signature
> unindented in this way.  Then a faked signature would have the colored
> bar.  I do agree as far as that it's easier for someone to understand
> the difference the current way, though.  Classic security/convenience
> tradeoff I guess.