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Re: PGP encrypted email - basic questions
From: levinson_k () securityadmin info
Date: 29 Dec 2006 21:50:41 -0000
Signing is not the same as encryption. Emails to public mailing lists are usually signed, but not encrypted. Signing adds a signature block that can optionally be used to validate the sender and content of the email, but the message is plainly readable. You don't have to validate the signature, exchange or obtain keys, or even have a PGP client to simply read the message. kind regards, Karl Levinson http://securityadmin.info
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