On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:18:32PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Those attachments (as you will find at the end of this mail) are > indeed 'some sort of privacy thing' - sort of. They are signatures to > verify where the mail came from. Now don't quote me on this, but I > believe the way the signatures work is that the message is signed with > the author's private key, which can then only be decrypted with the > author's public key.
Actually, signed with the private, verified with public. You can encrypt with public and decrypt with private to be sure *only* the owner of that key can read the message. Related question: What level of trust is appropriate to sign keys recieved from PGP servers and verified looking at the source of the email with the same key-ID? -- Baloo
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