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> Receipts can be signed with...

In the real world it doesn't matter which cryptographic protocols are theoretically available for use. What matters is which protocols everyone else is using. For example, in the case of receipts for purchases on the web, literally everyone is using email. You will not be able to get amazon to sign a receipt with gnupg.

If you want to embark on a path of convincing the world to move away from email, that's great, good for you. Just don't pretend like removing non-repudiation from e-mails is a quest on that path. It's not.




Which is why, when email providers can do very simple things that improve privacy for all their members, even though email is irretrievably insecure, they should do so, as harm mitigation. Your mail spool will eventually get owned up. The least they can do is make it deniable.


GnuPG works with email, was created to do so.


> GnuPG works with email, was created to do so.

Please explain how I can make amazon sign my purchase receipt with GnuPG?




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