-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walters wrote: > On 1/19/2012 05:04 PM, Dale wrote: >> Chris Walters wrote: >>> >>> This is a test. Enigmail has been trying to use a revoked and >>> expired key to sign my messages, lately. >>> >>> Chris >>> >> >> >> I have a question now. I got a message from Paul Hartman and >> replied to it, off list, and it was encrypted and I hope my reply >> was too. My question is this. How do you make a email that only >> the sender and receiver can read? As a example. I'm talking to >> a Doctor or a lawyer and I don't want anyone but that person to >> see the email. How do I do that? Can that be done. > > Yes, see below. It looks like you are using a web interface > (Firefox) to send and reply to messages. I would suggest emerging > Thunderbird (emerge -av thunderbird). There is an add on called > Enigmail for this mail client that makes encrypting, signing and > decrypting messages, much easier. You need gnupg, as well. >
Close. Sort of. I actually use Seamonkey as my emailly program. >> The message that I am repying to appears to be something, >> encypted maybe, but I think anyone on this list that uses the >> tool can read it. Am I correct? > > If the message is encrypted to them, then yes. If not, no. You > need a secret key to decrypt a message that is encrypted, and if > anyone seeing it is not on the list of recipients, they will not > have that key. > I'm starting to see this now. When I sign a message, it is public but people are assured that it came from me. Sort of like having a check with a picture ID that matches. :/ >> I'm trying to get a full understanding of this thing. Ya'll know >> how I am. lol > > With OpenPGP or PGP/MIME, you would have to share your public key > with the other party - this would allow that party to encrypt > messages to you. You would also have to have the public key of the > other party to encrypt to them. > > For example, if you wanted to encrypt to me, you'd have to retrieve > my public key from a keyserver or I'd have to send it to you. You > would have to either sign a message (and have uploaded your public > key to a keyserver), or send me your public key. > > You could then encrypt a message to me, and you could add yourself > to the recipient list so you could read it. Then, when I received > the message, I would be prompted for my secret key's passphrase - > this would allow decryption of the message. Providing that I > replied to you and chose the "encrypt" option, the entire message, > including any quotes would be encrypted. > > Hope this helps, Chris > > -- Multibooting: wearing two socks of different colors and types, > with two different boots... ;) > So, this is why when I want to sign a message it asks me for the password. I thought it was trying to do something wrong. Made me scratch my head. Mud is clearing up a bit. Dale :-) :-) - -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8YpUwACgkQiBoxVpK2GMCz4QCeNBRDf8wmErruB5SVREcra4uu 6dQAnRnR8OuS0Mo5jcBnLNRGug0hkhK/ =XWWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
