[olug] quick pgp question

Christopher Cashell topher at zyp.org
Wed Jun 9 13:37:13 UTC 2004


At Wed, 09 Jun 04, Unidentified Flying Banana Eric Penne, said:
> Using PGP/GPG.  If somebody wants to encrypt a message to me then they 
> need to use my public key.  Correct?

Correct.

> To encrypt a message to somebody else I need to use their public key. 
> Correct?

Correct.

> If the above is true then I encrypt a message to somebody with their 
> public key but the email gets signed using my private key and they 
> verify the signature with my public key.

Correct.

> Is everything above true?

Yep. ;-)

> Eric Penne

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