Thanks everyone, that's put me in the picture - I'll follow the links
up when I fell like a read later. The two points below were my eureka
moments, I guess!
"The signing is such that if the document is altered in
transit, the signature is no longer valid."
"...the keys themselves can be signed
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Steve Smith wrote:
Hello Steve,
> I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works.
'gpg' is a program called "GNU Privacy Guard", which can be installed using
Add/Remove programs or by and command-line:
sudo apt-get install gnupg
GPG uses encryption and fi
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 15:55 +0100, Tez wrote:
> Steve Smith wrote:
> > I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works. I
> > can't find a description that covers the absolute basics of what it
> > is, would anyone care to explain to me? Does it have anything to do
> > at all with
Steve Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works. I
> can't find a description that covers the absolute basics of what it
> is, would anyone care to explain to me? Does it have anything to do
> at all with the actual computer you create it on, or is it just
> c
On 9/1/06, Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works. I
> can't find a description that covers the absolute basics of what it
> is, would anyone care to explain to me? Does it have anything to do
> at all with the actual computer you
I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works. I
can't find a description that covers the absolute basics of what it
is, would anyone care to explain to me? Does it have anything to do
at all with the actual computer you create it on, or is it just
completely random? How does i
