PGP signatures

[Cristian Secara]

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 04:38:22 -0700, Paul Wiener wrote:

>Perhaps all PGP users should stop signing their routine messages, but should
>encrypt them instead. That would eliminate the extra consumption of bandwidth
>and those unsightly PGP signatures at the bottoms of the messages.

Letting aside the aberration, you seem to ignore that a (PGP) encrypted
message is much longer than the same message, but not encrypted.

Do a test: compose a single word message, then send it to yourself,
encrypted. Then look at the (received) message with 'View Full Message'
option.

Best wishes,
        Cristi