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Re: PGP encrypted email - basic questions
From: Gouki <Gouki () GoukiHQ org>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:28:44 -0100
Hi Dave, Signed and encrypted messages are two different things, as I'm sure you know. Everyone can, and should, sign every outgoing message, regardless of the addressee having, or not, the public key. When you see 'BEGIN PGP SIGNED..' it only means that the eMail was digitally signed, not encrypted. As you can see on the bottom of this message, it was signed, but not encrypted. If you don't mind me asking, what OS and eMail software are you using? Hope I made myself clear. Regards, Tiago On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 09:00 -0600, Dave Moore wrote:
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
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