Re: GPG and Signing
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:43:48 -0500
Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> 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
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