Re: GPG and Signing
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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
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>>> Michael, Wikipedia has a reasonably concise overview:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
>>>
>>
>> I was wondering about that too. Went to local book store and found a
>> good book on both PGP and GPG:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/PGP-GPG-Email-Practical-Paranoid/dp/1593270712/ref=sr_1_1/104-6276993-4918331?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175414807&sr=8-1
>>
>>
>> It's a quick and interesting read after which you will have a good
>> understanding of framework and mechanisms of both the tools and the
>> theory behind it.
>>
>
> 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...
Hugo,
Perhaps this link will help you. Since you're Dutch:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP
Succes ermee,
Joe
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