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Re: Why do I need a passphrase???



Paul Johnson wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
>   
>> I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this
>> list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be.
>>
>> I would gladly comply .. but I have no idea what that "PGP passphrase"
>> is and how I can obtain it.
>>   
>>     
> You are running a mail client that has OpenPGP support.  You can find
> out more about OpenPGP at Wikipedia. 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP.  I strongly reccommend you
> familiarize yourself with this technology as it is commonly used verify
> that an email hasn't been tampered or modified in shipping, or to
> provide end-to-end encryption.
>
> To get started with GnuPG, the GNU OpenPGP implementation, check out
>   
>
I just noticed I forgot to include the URL.
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/book1.html


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