Re: [SLUG] GnuPG testing

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 14:02:12 EDT


> I did receive your encrypted message.
This is good...
> However, I have not imported your
> public key so it did not decrypt.
I wonder how to do this...
> I believe signing and encrypting are
> different. Signing shows it could only have come from someone with your
> private key.
Yeah, I figured that out as I was encrypting/signing the email.
> Encrypting to me would require you have MY public key.
Or my public key? I would think that if I sent you my public key you'd be
able to decrypt it? This part is confusing....Okay, so I click on my little
padlock, and I can choose a public key. So if I choose your public key to
encrypt, then your private key would be able to decrypt. So no one but me
will be able to decrypt the encrypted message I sent.

Now I'm going to send my GPG sig as an attachment....does it make a
difference whether I do it as an attachment vs. just a regular signature?

Russell

>
> I believe you send it as an attachment.
>
> > I'm going to send this encrypted to the list as well. How do I send my
> > public key fingerprint to allow for it to be decrypted?
> >





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