Re: Symmetric encryption - options?

2012-03-13 Thread Eric Christensen
On Mar 13, 2012 4:37 PM, "Robert J. Hansen" wrote: > > > RSA is not an encryption algorithm. RSA is a means of exchanging > > keys. > > You may be thinking of the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm > (DHKEA). You're not thinking of RSA, though: RSA unquestionably is an > encryption algorithm.

Re: Symmetric encryption - options?

2012-03-13 Thread Eric Christensen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:02, jpemail2001-...@yahoo.com < jpemail2001-...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >If you choose to use someone's public certificate to encrypt a message, > >they use the private part of that certificate to decrypt it -- different > >things for encryption and decryption, thus a differ

Re: Symmetric encryption - options?

2012-03-13 Thread Eric Christensen
On Mar 13, 2012 8:15 AM, "Robert J. Hansen" wrote: > > On 3/13/2012 7:09 AM, Eric Christensen wrote: > > Because this is symmetric encryption. You would need to sign the data > > to get integrity protection. > > This isn't quite right. He's getting

Re: Symmetric encryption - options?

2012-03-13 Thread Eric Christensen
On Mar 13, 2012 6:23 AM, "jpemail2001-...@yahoo.com" < jpemail2001-...@yahoo.com> wrote: > gpg: CAST5 encrypted data > gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase > Test message > gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected > -