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by dooglius 3524 days ago
I didn't realize the signatures were leaked as well. Surprised nobody has looked at this yet, if we have cryptographic proof that certain emails are genuine, that shoots down a big counter-argument of "what if some emails are planted".
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If you click the "View Source" section, they have the entire MIME message. The display you see is formatted to make things easier to browse and list out any attachments (if any).
> if we have cryptographic proof that certain emails are genuine, that shoots down a big counter-argument of "what if some emails are planted".

Huh, no? I don't see how that follows logically.

If we have cryptographic proof that all email are genuine, then yes.

Right now we already know that some (most?) email are genuine. The question is whether or not the attacker, who was obviously motivated by political purposes, also inserted some fakes in the lot. (Although to me that seems highly unlikely)

Good point, but we know specifically which emails are genuine, and which may or may not be. Any particular email that isn't signed is questionable, but we can say for any given email whether or not it might be a fake.