-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip]
>>> Michael, Wikipedia has a reasonably concise overview: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy >>> >> >> I was wondering about that too. Went to local book store and found a >> good book on both PGP and GPG: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/PGP-GPG-Email-Practical-Paranoid/dp/1593270712/ref=sr_1_1/104-6276993-4918331?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175414807&sr=8-1 >> >> >> It's a quick and interesting read after which you will have a good >> understanding of framework and mechanisms of both the tools and the >> theory behind it. >> > > No local bookstores here :-( > I'm still waiting for a *well written plain English* description of > PGP/GPG. > > ... > The message recipient uses the sender's public key and the digital > signature to recover the original message digest. > ... > > is really another version of Fortran en not plain English. May be the > latter is no longer used in the business we're in... Hugo, Perhaps this link will help you. Since you're Dutch: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP Succes ermee, Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGEBcfiXBCVWpc5J4RAj6tAKCRgC+0G/GB1WREB0qHYRowIZM2NgCbBySc ZfxOpUpEzHnIpHdu5kXvnz8= =QnAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
