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On 1/19/2012 05:04 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Chris Walters wrote: |
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>> This is a test. Enigmail has been trying to use a revoked and expired key to |
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>> sign my messages, lately. |
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>> Chris |
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> I have a question now. I got a message from Paul Hartman and replied to |
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> it, off list, and it was encrypted and I hope my reply was too. My |
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> question is this. How do you make a email that only the sender and |
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> receiver can read? As a example. I'm talking to a Doctor or a lawyer |
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> and I don't want anyone but that person to see the email. How do I do |
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> that? Can that be done. |
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Yes, see below. It looks like you are using a web interface (Firefox) to send |
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and reply to messages. I would suggest emerging Thunderbird |
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(emerge -av thunderbird). There is an add on called Enigmail for this mail |
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client that makes encrypting, signing and decrypting messages, much easier. |
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You need gnupg, as well. |
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> The message that I am repying to appears to be something, encypted |
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> maybe, but I think anyone on this list that uses the tool can read it. |
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> Am I correct? |
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If the message is encrypted to them, then yes. If not, no. You need a secret |
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key to decrypt a message that is encrypted, and if anyone seeing it is not on |
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the list of recipients, they will not have that key. |
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> I'm trying to get a full understanding of this thing. Ya'll know how I |
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> am. lol |
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With OpenPGP or PGP/MIME, you would have to share your public key with the |
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other party - this would allow that party to encrypt messages to you. You |
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would also have to have the public key of the other party to encrypt to them. |
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For example, if you wanted to encrypt to me, you'd have to retrieve my public |
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key from a keyserver or I'd have to send it to you. You would have to either |
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sign a message (and have uploaded your public key to a keyserver), or send me |
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your public key. |
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You could then encrypt a message to me, and you could add yourself to the |
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recipient list so you could read it. Then, when I received the message, I |
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would be prompted for my secret key's passphrase - this would allow decryption |
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of the message. Providing that I replied to you and chose the "encrypt" |
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option, the entire message, including any quotes would be encrypted. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Chris |
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-- |
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Multibooting: wearing two socks of different colors and types, with two |
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different boots... ;) |
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