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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> There are basically 2 things PGP/GPG normally does for emails: signing |
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> and encrypting. They are not mutually exclusive. |
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> Signing (like you see on a lot of messages on this list, for example) |
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> is about the person who SENT the message. It lets you verify that the |
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> person who wrote the message is who you think they are, and that the |
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> contents of the message itself have not been altered. |
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> Encrypting is about the person RECEIVING the message. If you encrypt, |
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> it makes it so the message cannot be read by anyone except for the |
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> recipients you specified when encrypting it. (The sender is usually |
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> added to the encrypted recipients automatically, in case he needs to |
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> read his own sent message at a later date). Encryption is obviously in |
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> very bad taste on a public mailing list. :) |
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> So if you send a message that is both signed + encrypted, it will |
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> verify the identity of the sender as well as restrict the ability to |
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> read to only the people the sender wants. |
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> You can also use PGP keys for authentication (with an OpenPGP |
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> smartcard), and for signing files, which works just like signing |
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> email. |
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I think I get this now. When I sign the message, someone else opens it, |
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then it shows up that I signed it with the digital signature. Anyone |
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can read it tho. It's public as any normal email. Everyone just knows |
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it came from my rig is all. |
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When I encypt a message, only the person that I select the keys for can |
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open it. Example. I hit send and select your name in the little box |
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that pops up. Then only you can see the message but others on the list |
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can't since I only sent you the keys. Am I close? |
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I'm using Seamonkey by the way. When I hit send, I get a pop up window |
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that lists all the key thingys. I'm not sure how other clients do this. |
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I select which keys in that thing then it sends it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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