On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:43:48 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > No local bookstores here :-( > I'm still waiting for a *well written plain English* description of > PGP/GPG. > > ... > The message recipient uses the sender's public key and the digital > signature to recover the original message digest. > ... > > is really another version of Fortran en not plain English. May be the > latter is no longer used in the business we're in... It's really not so bad: "The message recipient [let's say, you] uses the sender's [whoever sent you the email] public key [a part of his key that he makes public, either by posting on a website, uploading to a keyserver, or any other means] and the digital signature [something that his MUA (generally) adds on to his (encrypted) email messages] to recover the original message digest [basically the original message]". Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
