E-Mail: j (dot) eatonlee {at} gmail [dot] com
I sign my e-mail with a certificate from cacert, which is a free community driven CA (Certificate Authority). What this means, practically, is that you can easily verify (via the s/MIME standard) that e-mail comes from the owner of a particular e-mail address. Assuming, that is, that you trust cacert, assuming that that person used cacert in the first place, and assuming that their passphrase/key hasn't been compromised!
All you need to do to participate is import the CA root certificate into your certificate store. None of that messing around with key swapping - one root cert import, and you're done. Cacert's regular certificates are quite easy to get, but the certificates which bear the sender's name (check mine, it's a generic certificate) are harder to get - there's actually an identity verification process.
If you join in, you'll be able to verify e-mail signed with a cacert certificate from any user of cacert in exactly the same way as a thawte or verisign user. As a CA, cacert issue certificates for other purposes as well, such as SSL (for secure http), so you don't just get s/MIME e-mail! Whilst cacert doesn't have widespread adoption as yet, several linux distributions are distributing it pre-imported into their certificate stores, and it's no more hassle than importing a gpg public key anyway!
The cacert root certificate is available for import from this page on the cacert.org website, and there are a variety of instructions for using/importing cacert certificates on their howto page. Enjoy!
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Postal/telephone contact details available on demand - I'm not sticking them on a publically accessible website, for obvious reasons!
