Hello michael !
michael crane wrote:
> I'm trying to understand the principals and benefits of using pgp/gpg
> I think I understand that I send the part of my key that is public to
> somebody and they use that key to encrypt a message which only I can
> decypher.
> So what if somebody uses my p
On 04/12/2012 06:21 PM, michael crane wrote:
> what is the mechanism to ensure it came from who I think it did ?
Turn it around.
The public and the private key are inverses. Each can decrypt what the
other one encrypts. When someone encrypts a message with your public
key, only your private key
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:21:16PM +0100, michael crane wrote:
> hello,
> I'm trying to understand the principals and benefits of using pgp/gpg
> I think I understand that I send the part of my key that is public to
> somebody and they use that key to encrypt a message which only I can
> decypher.
Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> On 04/12/2012 02:38 PM, Malte Gell wrote:
>> Any new key servers recommended to use?
>
> No.
>
> pool.sks-keyservers.net isn't really very much of a keyserver. It
> doesn't service your requests itself. Instead, it picks a random
> known-good keyserver from the global
hello,
I'm trying to understand the principals and benefits of using pgp/gpg
I think I understand that I send the part of my key that is public to
somebody and they use that key to encrypt a message which only I can
decypher.
So what if somebody uses my public key to send me a message purporting
to
On 04/12/2012 02:38 PM, Malte Gell wrote:
> Any new key servers recommended to use?
No.
pool.sks-keyservers.net isn't really very much of a keyserver. It
doesn't service your requests itself. Instead, it picks a random
known-good keyserver from the global keyserver network and proxies your
requ
Hello list,
We have an issue with one of our users. When he sends encrypted messages larger
than ~1 MB, we get these errors:
8218 - PGP decryption error - gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID CD5AA2E4
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID B44D925D, created 2006-03-29
"Mehdi Rahman "
Hi there,
haven´t used key servers in recent time and wonder what key servers are
recommended currently.
I have used pool.sks-keyservers.net, they were said to be okay
especially due to the subkeys issues.
Any new key servers recommended to use?
Thanx
Malte
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> On 04/07/2012 11:28 PM, ? wrote:
>> Execuse me where can I find the binaries of this new version on
>> a windows platform
> http://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-2.1.0.exe
> Enjoy.
I gather that a new build is expected soon, but last time I
