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If nobody cares at all who signed a message, you don't need a signature scheme.

> 'this whole charade is pointless ... but it does solve this somewhat tangentially related problem ... kinda'.

I'd assume it isn't – why else would they be doing it (other than for compatibility with some package distribution scheme that, for other use cases, enforces the existence of a signature, which is arguably just a special case of "you don't need a signature scheme").



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