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PGP encrypted email - basic questions
From: "Dave Moore" <dave.j.moore () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:00:43 -0600
Hello all- I'm trying to get started with PGP and there are some concepts I am having trouble with. I understand that a recipient of a PGP signed/encrypted message will have to get my public key to decrypt said message. What I don't understand is how this is carried out in a seemingly automatic fashion for many of the email messages I receive, e.g. postings from mailing lists, in which I see the 'BEGIN PGP SIGNED.. ' and the signature at the end. I didn't decrypt these messages, and I have no idea how they got decrypted. When I encrypt a message and send it to myself, the message I see is decidedly not decrypted. I did notice this header.. OpenPGP: id=5847D5CF; url=http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5847D5CF in the outgoing encrypted test message I sent, which leads me to suspect that it might have something to do with this process, but still, my message is not decrypted. How does this work? Dave -- ========== A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Heinlein
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