These GPG guys have thought of everything (or I guess the PGP guys did) :) In any case I really enjoyed the presentation and the key signing last night although it's really hurting productivity today. I keep redownloading my key looking to see if anyone new has signed it :)
Jeff On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:37AM -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:25, Jeffrey Clement wrote: > > So assuming this is true, which I'm fairly sure it is, wouldn't > > encrypting to multiple recipients just attach one copy of the symmetric > > key encrypted for each recipient. The message data itself would still > > only appear once in the GPG output and would be encrypted using the > > symmetric cipher. > > yes, you are right... the session key for a symmetric cipher is used and is > encrypted uniquely for each recipient... those multiple copies of the key are > attached to the encrypted message so the each intended recipient can access > the key... > > http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN210 > > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" > - Albert Einstein > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+QpQ+1rcusafx20MRArcwAJwJ7cHb4kOeB/3Df6m+d4cUARsqGACfQp0C > tqxvfaUaSdw9Kc66hNjX8Vw= > =sFSp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Jeff Clement GPG Signature: 2956 42A8 ED8A 91F4 8CE0 A5DF 5293 8E10 6F08 7FB9 Website : http://jclement.ca
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