You obviously still don't understand PGP. Please go read the manual.
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Aaron P Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> So how about if everyone just uploads a signed file. Like hello.txt
> which contains only the text "hello" which is then signed with your key
> and attached to the message. Thats easy enough right? Just name the
> file, like krepta.txt.sig, or krepta.txt.asc.
>
> Here is my attached files.
>
> This way a signature can easily be saved to disk, decrypted, verified,
> and added to the keyring. :)
>
> I downloaded GnuPG For Win95 and I don't understand how to use it. It
> won't let me add my keyrings, pubring.skr and secring.skr, to the GnuPG
> keyrings. I have no idea how to use the thing. It would be nice if it
> had a GUI, even just a DOS GUI would be nice.
>
> On Fri, 18 May 2001 19:11:00 +0100 Leo Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:20:58PM -0700, Aaron P Ingebrigtsen
> > wrote:
> > > I'm signing this message with my PGP signature. I think that the
> > > signature is determined by the content of the message as well as
> > the
> > > public key and passphrase.
> >
> > Well, not quite. I have a private and public key (you can get my
> > public key from Freesite - it's not on the keyservers). When I sign
> > a message I use my passphrase to decrypt my private key (stored on
> > disk) and encrypt a hash of the message with it. This hash can only
> > be decrypted with my public key - not contained in the signature -
> > and you know the message is from me if
> > a) you can decrypt the hash and
> > b) The encrypted hash and a hash of the message you generate are
> > the same.
> >
> > And BTW I use mutt which does funky MIME stuff with PGP that no one
> > else seems to be able to read ;-)
> >
> > HTH,
> > Leo
> >
> > --
> > Leo Howell M5AKW
> > freenet:MSK@SSK@2vz8xnhEJyJOlBVNfBEOWaohQFEQAgE/freesite//
> >
> >
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