At 10:01 PM 5/14/01 -0700, Jonathan Wienke wrote:
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>One of the features of PGP is that when you encrypt a message, you
>can specify any number of recipients (unique public keys) who can
>read the message. The message is encrypted with a random session key
>using a symmetric algorithm such as CAST or IDEA. The message header
>contains the session key encrypted with each public key specified,
>and any matching private key can be used to decrypt the session key
>from the header, and thus the entire message. The Outlook/Eudora
>plugins automatically attempt to match the addresses of recipients of
>outgoing messages to email addresses on keys in your keyring file.
>One of the keys specified can be your own; PGP 6.x can default to
>encrypting all messages with your key.
>
>Jonathan Wienke
I didn't know about that feature, thanks. Especially useful as there
are none of the symmetric+PK algorithms postulated.
Humbly,
dh
